MARY ESTELLE LOVE, Obituary, 1948 - Runnels Co, TX ***************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.rootsweb/~usgenweb/ Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 15 Nov 2000 ***************************************************************** Ballinger Ledger, January 1948, Ballinger, Texas Mrs. A. S. Love Mrs. Mary Estelle Love, 77 died in a Tyler hospital Wednesday morning after extended illness which became critical last Sunday. She had been in Tyler for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Hayley several weeks. A pioneer citizen of Ballinger, decedent is the last of her family. She was married to Dr. A. S. Love, early day Ballinger surgeon and physician, while he was a medical student at Galveston in 1896, and the couple moved to Ballinger to make home in 1897, residing here ever since. Dr. Love died at his home here four years ago. Mrs. Love was an active worker in First Baptist Church here and for many years was an executive of the Baptist State Board of Missions. Funeral services are to be held this afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the First Baptist Church, Rev. B. J. Martin to officiate. Burial will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. Survivors include three nephews and one niece whom she reared from early childhood. They are Herbert M. Preston, music instructor at Hardin- Simmons University, Abilene; C. H. Preston, drug store operator at Del Rio; J. T. Preston, stock farmer at Pearsall; and Mrs. H. H. Hayley of Tyler. Permission granted by Ballinger Ledger for publication in the Runnels County TXGenWeb Archives