Brent Lamkin Leigh
b. 1 August 1917, d. 24 September 1991
- Father: Horace Fisher Leigh b. 15 September 1878, d. 28 October 1959
- Mother: Roberta Belle Lamkin b. 2 April 1885, d. 1 December 1951
- Brent Lamkin Leigh was born on 1 August 1917 in Texas.
- Horace Fisher Leigh and Roberta Belle Lamkin appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas, enumerated near the Walker County jail.. Other members of the household included Brent Lamkin Leigh, Mack Fisher Leigh, Katherine Leigh and Horace Rudgely Leigh.
- He married Dorothy Fay Blanton, daughter of John William Blanton and Vallie Dove Harrison.
- Brent Lamkin Leigh became a widower at the 23 February 1974 death of his wife Dorothy Fay Blanton.
- Brent Lamkin Leigh died on 24 September 1991 at age 74 in Maryville, Blount County, Tennessed.
- He was interred at Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas.
- The following appeared on 23 May 2004 in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Katherine Leigh Parr, 93, died Tuesday, May 11, 2004, in Richmond. She was born in Huntsville, Texas on July 30, 1910 and lived in San Antonio, Texas for over 40 years. After the death of her husband of 52 years, J. O. Parr Jr., she moved to Knoxville, Tenn., and in 1990, to Richmond. Her parents were Horace F. and Roberta Lamkin Leigh. She had three brothers and a sister, all deceased: Mack F., Horace R., Brent L. and Mary F. Leigh. She is survived by a daughter, Mary K. (Kathy) Reams of Richmond; and a son, J. O. Parr III of Potomac, Md. Her grandchildren are Leigh M. Reams Fannin Ward (deceased), Brent S. Reams and Elizabeth K. Reams Johnson of Richmond, Frances K. Parr Harris of Baltimore, Md. and Josie A. Parr Welling of San Rafael, Calif. She also leaves four great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren, four sisters-in-law; and a dear friend, Mildred Dougherty of San Antonio. Interment was Saturday, May 15 in the Parr family plot at the Rose Hill Burial Park in Oklahoma City, Okla.
- Last Edited: 21 Feb 2012