OBITUARY

MRS. SARAH E. PRESLEY
October  1958, age 87

Submitted by Loy Pressley

From the Sherman Democrat newspaper
Sherman, Grayson County, Texas
October 6, 1958.

Mrs. Sarah E. Presley 

Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah E. Presley, 87, who died Saturday night at Sherman hospital, were held Monday 3:30 p. m. at Dannel Funeral Chapel.  Her home was at 208 E. Cherry.
   
Burial was in West Hill Cemetery.  Rev. Leon Martin, minister of the Nazarene Church, conducted the rites.  Pallbearers were G. W. McCollum, Leman Trammell, Hoyt Todd, Joe Presley, Earl McCollum and Loyd Barron, nephews of Mrs. Presley.
   
Mrs. Presley was born near Bowling Green, Ky., a daughter of Mr. And Mrs. John Stanley.  She was the widow of G. W. Presley whom she married in Glasgow, Ky., in 1891.  He died in 1952.  She was a member of the Nazarene Church.
   
Surviving are three sons, Tom Presley of Salem, Ore.; G. R. Presley of Parsons, Kan.; and Hugh L. Presley of Tulsa, Okla.; four daughters, Mrs. D. A. McCollum, Sherman; Mrs. Bell Strickland and Mrs. Leon Henry, Dallas, and Mrs. C. B. Biddle, Healdton, Okla.; 24 grandchildren and several great grandchildren.