Palestine High School Alumni Association

00 / 00 / 188*  –  03 / 03 / 1973

Miss Maude Sammons, a former longtime employee in the Anderson County Courthouse died Saturday evening in Memorial Hospital at the age of 87.

Funeral services were scheduled for 2:30 P.M. today in the Bailey Memorial Chapel with the Rev. W.S. Blanton, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in the New Addition Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be the following nephews: Charles Pleasant, Wallace Brunson, Edward Shandera, Jack McDonald, George Pleasant, and Leslie Sammons, Jr.

A native of Palestine, Miss Sammons was a daughter of the late J.W. and Eula Langham Sammons. She had worked at the courthouse here for a number of years before moving to Houston, where she worked for the Gulf Oil Corporation. Following her retirement, she returned to Palestine and had made her home here for the past 16 years.

Miss Sammons was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Palestine and a 50 year member of the Palestine Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include a brother, Leslie L. Sammons of Houma, Louisiana; three sisters, Mrs. Grace S. (C.L.) McDonald of Marshall, Mrs. Bonnie (Floyd) Ousley of Harlingen, and Mrs. Edna Mae (Joe) Jenkins of Longview, and several nieces and nephews.