Tommie Barnes

Tommie Barnes

• Tommie Barnes was born on 22 November 1890 in Dallas, Texas.
• She married Chaytor Orton Sandefur, son of Patrick Washington Sandefur and Lela Francis Pegues.
• She officially witnessed the death of Chaytor Orton Sandefur on 3 October 1958 at St. Paul Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
• Tommie Barnes became a widow at the 3 October 1958 death of her husband Chaytor Orton Sandefur.
• The following appeared on 4 October 1958 in The Dallas Morning News: Chayton ][sic] Orton Sandefur, of 5532 Reiger, a retired statistician for the Texas & Pacific Railway, died Friday in a Dallas hospital after a long illness.
       A native of Fayetteville, Ark., he moved to Texas with his parents as a boy and was educated in Longview schools.
       Sandefur married the former Miss Tommie Barnes, a Dallas singer, in 1912.
       He retired from the T&P in 1952, and became a member of the Forty Club, in which he served actively until his death.
       He was a charter member of the East Dallas Masonic Lodge, and a life member of Hella Temple Shrine.
       A popular sportsman, he maintained a fishing lodge at Possum Kingdom and Lake Whitney. He was serving as game warden for Dallas County at the time of his death.
       Besides his wife he is survived by five sisters, Mrs. Lela Mitchell of Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. E. J. Kennedy and Mrs. Lawrence Channey, both of Longview and Mrs. A. B. Busbey and Mrs. A. C. Numsen, both of Dallas.
       Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Craig Chapel of Gaston Avenue Baptist Church, 4024 Gaston, with Dr. Harold Basden and the Rev. James E. Bailey, officiating. Masonic graveside services will be conducted in Oakland Cemetery.
       Pallbearers will be M. R. Voorhies, Dr. Frank Kelley, Frances Mauk, Paul Tarkington, A. A. Kelly, and S. R. Bourgeois.
• Tommie Barnes died on 11 July 1959 at age 68 in Dallas, Texas.
• She was interred at Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, Texas.
• The following appeared on 12 July 1959 in The Dallas Morning News: Mrs. Tommie Sandefur, 68, of 5532 Reiger, a Dallas religious musician, died Saturday in a Dallas hospital after a heart attack.
       Mrs. Sandefur was a former voice pupil of Mamie Folsom Wynne. She sant in the choirs of the Second Presbyterian Church, Gaston Avenue Baptist Church and Ervay Street Methodist Church and a founder-member of the Wynne Study Club. She was a member of the Gaston Avenue Baptist Church and the Wednesday Morning Choral Club.
       Her husband, Chaytor O. Sandefur, a long-time employe of the Texas & Pacific Railway, died last October.
       Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Craig Chapel, Gaston Avenue Baptist Church, 4024 Gaston. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery.
       Pallbearers will be A. A. Kelley, M. R. Voorhies, D. F. Mauk, A. A. Stein, A. W. Lewis and Gus French.

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