Joe Oswald, 86, Waco Ex-Farmer, Claimed by Death
Joe Oswald, 86, of Route 8, a retired farmer, died at 1 a. m. Sunday at 1105 North Sixteenth Street after a three-week illness.
He was born in Ohio and came to Texas with his parents when he was seven. The traveled down the Mississippi to Galveston and then came to Waco. He was the only living member of a family of 12 children and had lived here 60 years.
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Compton Chapel, Rev. Ed Laux officiating. Burial will be Oakwood Cemetery.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. D. K. Howard, Silver Springs, Md., Mrs. G. B. Kraft, Waco, and Mrs. W. P. Hughes, El Paso; seven sons, Lawrence, Owen, Lewis and Woodrow Oswald, all of Waco, B. S. Oswald, Fort Worth, Robert Oswald, McGregor, and Gilmer Oswald, Mooreville; 19 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Waco Tribune, Aug 17, 1953
Oldest Child:
Mary Van Oswald Howard (1894-1963)
Grave cannot be located.
Joe Oswald, 86, of Route 8, a retired farmer, died at 1 a. m. Sunday at 1105 North Sixteenth Street after a three-week illness.
He was born in Ohio and came to Texas with his parents when he was seven. The traveled down the Mississippi to Galveston and then came to Waco. He was the only living member of a family of 12 children and had lived here 60 years.
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Compton Chapel, Rev. Ed Laux officiating. Burial will be Oakwood Cemetery.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. D. K. Howard, Silver Springs, Md., Mrs. G. B. Kraft, Waco, and Mrs. W. P. Hughes, El Paso; seven sons, Lawrence, Owen, Lewis and Woodrow Oswald, all of Waco, B. S. Oswald, Fort Worth, Robert Oswald, McGregor, and Gilmer Oswald, Mooreville; 19 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Waco Tribune, Aug 17, 1953
Oldest Child:
Mary Van Oswald Howard (1894-1963)
Grave cannot be located.
Joe Oswald, 86, Waco Ex-Farmer, Claimed by Death
Joe Oswald, 86, of Route 8, a retired farmer, died at 1 a. m. Sunday at 1105 North Sixteenth Street after a three-week illness.
He was born in Ohio and came to Texas with his parents when he was seven. The traveled down the Mississippi to Galveston and then came to Waco. He was the only living member of a family of 12 children and had lived here 60 years.
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Compton Chapel, Rev. Ed Laux officiating. Burial will be Oakwood Cemetery.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. D. K. Howard, Silver Springs, Md., Mrs. G. B. Kraft, Waco, and Mrs. W. P. Hughes, El Paso; seven sons, Lawrence, Owen, Lewis and Woodrow Oswald, all of Waco, B. S. Oswald, Fort Worth, Robert Oswald, McGregor, and Gilmer Oswald, Mooreville; 19 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Waco Tribune, Aug 17, 1953
Oldest Child:
Mary Van Oswald Howard (1894-1963)
Grave cannot be located.
Joe Oswald, 86, of Route 8, a retired farmer, died at 1 a. m. Sunday at 1105 North Sixteenth Street after a three-week illness.
He was born in Ohio and came to Texas with his parents when he was seven. The traveled down the Mississippi to Galveston and then came to Waco. He was the only living member of a family of 12 children and had lived here 60 years.
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Monday in Compton Chapel, Rev. Ed Laux officiating. Burial will be Oakwood Cemetery.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. D. K. Howard, Silver Springs, Md., Mrs. G. B. Kraft, Waco, and Mrs. W. P. Hughes, El Paso; seven sons, Lawrence, Owen, Lewis and Woodrow Oswald, all of Waco, B. S. Oswald, Fort Worth, Robert Oswald, McGregor, and Gilmer Oswald, Mooreville; 19 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
Waco Tribune, Aug 17, 1953
Oldest Child:
Mary Van Oswald Howard (1894-1963)
Grave cannot be located.
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