Funeral will be held at Hanes Chapel at 11 a.m. Tuesday for Wesley Ellis Thomas, 54, of 2612 Beechwoood Street who died at 2:30 a.m. yesterday at Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, Tenn., where he had been a patient for two days. Funeral will be conducted by Rev. R. Murphy Williams, former pastor of Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, and Rev. W. E. Wisseman, pastor of the Congregational Christian Church. Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery. The body arrived here at 10:55 a.m. today and will remain at the funeral home until the hour of the service.
A traveling representative for the West Publishing Company of Minneapollis, Minn., he became ill in Chattanooga several days ago. He had been in declining health for a year.
He was a native of Rockingham and had lived here for 25 years. He was the son of Wesley Ellis and Fanny MacDonald Thomas. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School, a member of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, and a veteran of both world wars.
Surviving are his wife, the former Gladys Holland; a son, Jeremy Thomas, and a daughter, Jan Thomas, both of the home; two brothers, Charles Thomas of Charlotte and Scott Thomas of Rockingham, and a sister, Mrs. Beth Story of Rockingham.
Printed in the Greensboro Record, Monday, January 17, 1949
A traveling representative for the West Publishing Company of Minneapollis, Minn., he became ill in Chattanooga several days ago. He had been in declining health for a year.
He was a native of Rockingham and had lived here for 25 years. He was the son of Wesley Ellis and Fanny MacDonald Thomas. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School, a member of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, and a veteran of both world wars.
Surviving are his wife, the former Gladys Holland; a son, Jeremy Thomas, and a daughter, Jan Thomas, both of the home; two brothers, Charles Thomas of Charlotte and Scott Thomas of Rockingham, and a sister, Mrs. Beth Story of Rockingham.
Printed in the Greensboro Record, Monday, January 17, 1949
Funeral will be held at Hanes Chapel at 11 a.m. Tuesday for Wesley Ellis Thomas, 54, of 2612 Beechwoood Street who died at 2:30 a.m. yesterday at Erlanger Hospital, Chattanooga, Tenn., where he had been a patient for two days. Funeral will be conducted by Rev. R. Murphy Williams, former pastor of Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, and Rev. W. E. Wisseman, pastor of the Congregational Christian Church. Burial will be in Green Hill Cemetery. The body arrived here at 10:55 a.m. today and will remain at the funeral home until the hour of the service.
A traveling representative for the West Publishing Company of Minneapollis, Minn., he became ill in Chattanooga several days ago. He had been in declining health for a year.
He was a native of Rockingham and had lived here for 25 years. He was the son of Wesley Ellis and Fanny MacDonald Thomas. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School, a member of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, and a veteran of both world wars.
Surviving are his wife, the former Gladys Holland; a son, Jeremy Thomas, and a daughter, Jan Thomas, both of the home; two brothers, Charles Thomas of Charlotte and Scott Thomas of Rockingham, and a sister, Mrs. Beth Story of Rockingham.
Printed in the Greensboro Record, Monday, January 17, 1949
A traveling representative for the West Publishing Company of Minneapollis, Minn., he became ill in Chattanooga several days ago. He had been in declining health for a year.
He was a native of Rockingham and had lived here for 25 years. He was the son of Wesley Ellis and Fanny MacDonald Thomas. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School, a member of the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, and a veteran of both world wars.
Surviving are his wife, the former Gladys Holland; a son, Jeremy Thomas, and a daughter, Jan Thomas, both of the home; two brothers, Charles Thomas of Charlotte and Scott Thomas of Rockingham, and a sister, Mrs. Beth Story of Rockingham.
Printed in the Greensboro Record, Monday, January 17, 1949
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