William Pankey

Name: Anna B Pankey
Birth Date: 17 Apr 1906
Birth Place: Chief, Kaufman, Texas, USA
Father: William Pankey
Mother: Roxie Foreman

Kaufman Herald mar 02 1944 Page 1
W.M. Pankey Former Ginner Is Laid To Rest
Kaufman County Resident for 69 Years Succumbs
Wm. M. Pankey, former Kaufman furniture store owner and ginner, died here Friday evening at 8:10 o'clock after an illness of several weeks. Mr. Pankey was an employee of the Terrell State Hospital at Terrell.
Funeral services were conducted fromt he residence of a daughter, Mrs. Chas. Krauss, Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, with Felix W. Tarbet, minister of the Church of Christ in Terrell, officiating. Burial was made at eh Kaufman cemetery.
William M. Pankey was born June 12, 1870 in Arkansas, the son of William and Mattie Pankey. The family moved to Kaufman county when William was four years of age. He had been a resident of the county for 69 years.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Bill Shaw Peters and Mrs. Chas. Krauss of Kaufman and Mrs. L.R. Reid of Ennis, and one brother, John Pankey of Kaufman. His wife died March 1, 1937 and a son, Henry Pankey, died July 5, 1940.
Active pallbearers were: Willie Morriss, Emmett Long, G.O. Crisp, Tome Coleman, Will Jones, Fred Guthrie, Hubert Wimpee, Alvin Fox, Wrner Wimpee and Tom Legg.