Mack Fisher Leigh

b. 30 July 1910, d. 1 March 1976
  • Mack Fisher Leigh was born on 30 July 1910 in Huntsville, Walker County, 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 Mack Fisher Leigh, Katherine Leigh, Horace Rudgely Leigh and Brent Lamkin Leigh.
  • Horace Fisher Leigh and Roberta Belle Lamkin appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, at 4305 Avenue D. Other members of the household included Mack Fisher Leigh, Katherine Leigh.
  • He was employed as manager of an automobile service station, according to the 1930 census.
  • He officially witnessed the death of Roberta Belle Lamkin on 1 December 1951 at 100 Senisa Drive in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas; at her residence.
  • At the time of his death Mack Fisher Leigh was living in Austin, Travis County, Texas, at 1113 Hollybluff.
  • Mack Fisher Leigh died on 1 March 1976 at age 65 in Austin, Travis County, Texas, at Brackenridge Hospital . Informant was his son Mack Fisher Leigh Jr.
  • He was interred at Capital Parks Cemetery, Travis 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