Palestine High School Alumni Association

01 / 09 / 1894  –  04 / 29 / 1985

Graveside services for Annie McFarlane Higby, 91, of Yantis, were scheduled for 2 p.m. today at East Hill Cemetery with the Rev. Mance Coker officiating. Local arrangements are by Hassell & Foster Funeral Home.

Mrs. Higby died Monday in the Wood County Central Hospital at Quitman.  She was born in Palestine January 9, 1894, a daughter of Robert and Addie Bush McFarlane.

For the past eight years she had lived in Yantis, but had spent most of her life in the Baytown-LaPorte area, where she retired as a teacher in the Baytown Independent School District after 62 years of service. A Methodist, she was a member of the Rebekah Lodge and the Order or the Eastern Star Chapter in LaPorte.

Her husband, Charles Anderson Higby, preceded her in death in 1961.

Survivors include a daughter, Frances Coker of Yantis, a son, Charles Anderson Higby Jr. of Bremmerton, Wash.; two sisters, Dollie Gibbs of Dallas and Jessie Dunnington of Houston; 10 grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 04-29-1985