Palestine High School Alumni Association

08 / 14 / 1889  –  12 / 25 / 1969

Miss Mary Rees, a retired employee of the Palestine Water Dept., died in a local hospital Thursday afternoon following a lengthily illness.

Funeral service are to be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Bailey Memorial chapel with DR. R.L. Badgett, pastor of First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will follow in the East Hill Cemetary.

Miss Rees was born in Palestine August 14, 1889, a daughter of the late Clement and Rebecca Jane Brown Rees.

A life long member of the First Christian Church, she had lived all her life at the family home at 609 North Sycamore….

Survivors include two nieces, Mrs. Donavan Moore of Palestine and Mrs Byron McFarland of Del Rio and several great nieces and nephews.