Lois Irma Ward

Lois Irma Ward

• Father: Oscar Zenella Ward b. 1 January 1857, d. 29 March 1944
• Mother: Martha A. Moore b. 2 June 1856, d. 7 February 1931

• Lois Irma Ward was born on 16 December 1894 in Cade, Navarro County, Texas.
• Oscar Zenella Ward and Martha A. Moore appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Navarro County, Texas. Other members of the household included Lois Irma Ward, Mary Lela Ward, Ola F. Ward, Blake Zenella Ward, Will Jay Ward, Oscar Arthur Ward, Walter W. Ward, John Herbert Ward, Rex H. Ward and Ross S. Ward.
• Oscar Zenella Ward and Martha A. Moore appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Hardeman County, Texas. Other members of the household included Lois Irma Ward, Mary Lela Ward, John Herbert Ward, Ross S. Ward and Rex H. Ward.
• The following appeared on 5 April 1911 in The Corsicana Daily Sun: (Chigger Hill) Mr. Walter Ward, Miss Etta Freeman, Mr. Ernest Huff, Miss Lois Ward and Mr. Ross Ward, all of Zion's Rest were the guests of Miss Cora Castalow of Chigger Hill Sunday afternoon.
• Lois Irma Ward appeared in the 1916 Fort Worth, Texas, City Directory at 2017 Lee Avenue boarding with her parents..
• Rex H. Ward (and Lois Irma Ward) appeared in the 1918 Fort Worth, Texas, City Directory at 2100 Ross Avenue living with their parents. Rex was listed as a gauger.
• Oscar Zenella Ward and Martha A. Moore appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, at 2110 Clinton Avenue. Other members of the household included Lois Irma Ward, John Herbert Ward, Rex H. Ward and Audrey Lois Ward.
• She was a telephone company instructor, according to the 1920 census.
• She married Thomas Hawkins Dickey, son of Delauney M. Dickey and Nellie Potts, circa 1921.
• Thomas Hawkins Dickey and Lois Irma Ward appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Spur, Dickens County, Texas, at 515 Carroll Avenue.
• Thomas Hawkins Dickey and Lois Irma Ward appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Brenham, Washington County, Texas, at 705 Alma. The family was living in Houston County in 1935.
• Thomas Hawkins Dickey registered for the draft on 27 April 1942 in Washington County, Texas, while living with his wife Lois in Brenham at 614 South Market, and employed there by Production Credit Asociation at 206 West Main.
• Lois Irma Ward became a widow at the 17 October 1964 death of her husband Thomas Hawkins Dickey.
• Lois Irma Ward died on 25 September 1982 at age 87 in Grapeland, Houston County, Texas, at Community Memorial Hospital.
• She was interred at Evergreen Memorial Park, Crockett, Houston County, Texas.

• Last Edited: 11 Aug 2016