Son of Jacob A. Magee and Alice Leah Bickham Magee
Husband of Rosa Isabella Morgan Magee
Corpus Christi Times Corpus Christi, Texas Thursday Dec 14, 1950
Ira D.Magee
Dies at 73
in Calallen
Caller-Times News Service
CALALLEN - Ira D. Magee, 73 lifelong resident of Nueces County, former rancher, and first postmaster at Calallen, died at 5:40 a.m.
today, after an illness of two days.
His wife, Mrs. Rosa Morgan Magee, 68, died in a Corpus Christi hospital Wednesday, Dec. 6. The couple had observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary here last August at an open house held at the home of a son, Atlee Magee. Scores of friends from throughout South Texas attended.
Magee was born in Old Nuecestown on July 25, 1877, less than a year after the most famous of a series of Mexican raids on the settlement.
The community was a busy trading center ior a large part old South Texas in the 1870s. His parents were the late, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Magee, a pioneer ranch
family of Nueces County, and among- the earlier settlers in the Calallen section. Magee's father, who established ranch holdings a half century before the townsite of Calallen was established, was shot and killed Dec. 28, 1894, by cattle thieves near Bluntzer.
Magee, who served as first postmaster at Calallen, was engaged in livestock raising and agriculture for many years. At one time he was associated in ranching interests with the late Vincent Bluntzer.
Magee was a member of the Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by three sons, Atlee, Alton and James, all of Calallen; four daughters, Mrs. J. E. Baxter, Mrs. New Noakes, and Mrs. J. H. McCown, all of Calallen, and Miss Norma Magee of Corpus Christi; one sister, Mrs. A. B. Ault of Calallen; eight grandchildren, Maurice Byerly, Sally Magee, John A. Magee Jr., Richard Magee, Mary Pearl Baxter, Betty Rose McCown, Joe McCown, Michael McCown, and two great - grandchildren Danny Byerly, and Mary Katherine Byerly.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the Peel- Jackson Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Wesley Sumerlin of Benavldes and the Rev. Harold Goodenough of Grace Methodist Church, Annaville, will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers, all nephews of Magee will be Lloyd Magee, Bruno Morgan, and E. R. Magee, Jr., of Corpus Christi; Dolph Magee and Bill Magee of Calallen and Hugh Magee of Encinal.
Husband of Rosa Isabella Morgan Magee
Corpus Christi Times Corpus Christi, Texas Thursday Dec 14, 1950
Ira D.Magee
Dies at 73
in Calallen
Caller-Times News Service
CALALLEN - Ira D. Magee, 73 lifelong resident of Nueces County, former rancher, and first postmaster at Calallen, died at 5:40 a.m.
today, after an illness of two days.
His wife, Mrs. Rosa Morgan Magee, 68, died in a Corpus Christi hospital Wednesday, Dec. 6. The couple had observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary here last August at an open house held at the home of a son, Atlee Magee. Scores of friends from throughout South Texas attended.
Magee was born in Old Nuecestown on July 25, 1877, less than a year after the most famous of a series of Mexican raids on the settlement.
The community was a busy trading center ior a large part old South Texas in the 1870s. His parents were the late, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Magee, a pioneer ranch
family of Nueces County, and among- the earlier settlers in the Calallen section. Magee's father, who established ranch holdings a half century before the townsite of Calallen was established, was shot and killed Dec. 28, 1894, by cattle thieves near Bluntzer.
Magee, who served as first postmaster at Calallen, was engaged in livestock raising and agriculture for many years. At one time he was associated in ranching interests with the late Vincent Bluntzer.
Magee was a member of the Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by three sons, Atlee, Alton and James, all of Calallen; four daughters, Mrs. J. E. Baxter, Mrs. New Noakes, and Mrs. J. H. McCown, all of Calallen, and Miss Norma Magee of Corpus Christi; one sister, Mrs. A. B. Ault of Calallen; eight grandchildren, Maurice Byerly, Sally Magee, John A. Magee Jr., Richard Magee, Mary Pearl Baxter, Betty Rose McCown, Joe McCown, Michael McCown, and two great - grandchildren Danny Byerly, and Mary Katherine Byerly.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the Peel- Jackson Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Wesley Sumerlin of Benavldes and the Rev. Harold Goodenough of Grace Methodist Church, Annaville, will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers, all nephews of Magee will be Lloyd Magee, Bruno Morgan, and E. R. Magee, Jr., of Corpus Christi; Dolph Magee and Bill Magee of Calallen and Hugh Magee of Encinal.
Son of Jacob A. Magee and Alice Leah Bickham Magee
Husband of Rosa Isabella Morgan Magee
Corpus Christi Times Corpus Christi, Texas Thursday Dec 14, 1950
Ira D.Magee
Dies at 73
in Calallen
Caller-Times News Service
CALALLEN - Ira D. Magee, 73 lifelong resident of Nueces County, former rancher, and first postmaster at Calallen, died at 5:40 a.m.
today, after an illness of two days.
His wife, Mrs. Rosa Morgan Magee, 68, died in a Corpus Christi hospital Wednesday, Dec. 6. The couple had observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary here last August at an open house held at the home of a son, Atlee Magee. Scores of friends from throughout South Texas attended.
Magee was born in Old Nuecestown on July 25, 1877, less than a year after the most famous of a series of Mexican raids on the settlement.
The community was a busy trading center ior a large part old South Texas in the 1870s. His parents were the late, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Magee, a pioneer ranch
family of Nueces County, and among- the earlier settlers in the Calallen section. Magee's father, who established ranch holdings a half century before the townsite of Calallen was established, was shot and killed Dec. 28, 1894, by cattle thieves near Bluntzer.
Magee, who served as first postmaster at Calallen, was engaged in livestock raising and agriculture for many years. At one time he was associated in ranching interests with the late Vincent Bluntzer.
Magee was a member of the Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by three sons, Atlee, Alton and James, all of Calallen; four daughters, Mrs. J. E. Baxter, Mrs. New Noakes, and Mrs. J. H. McCown, all of Calallen, and Miss Norma Magee of Corpus Christi; one sister, Mrs. A. B. Ault of Calallen; eight grandchildren, Maurice Byerly, Sally Magee, John A. Magee Jr., Richard Magee, Mary Pearl Baxter, Betty Rose McCown, Joe McCown, Michael McCown, and two great - grandchildren Danny Byerly, and Mary Katherine Byerly.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the Peel- Jackson Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Wesley Sumerlin of Benavldes and the Rev. Harold Goodenough of Grace Methodist Church, Annaville, will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers, all nephews of Magee will be Lloyd Magee, Bruno Morgan, and E. R. Magee, Jr., of Corpus Christi; Dolph Magee and Bill Magee of Calallen and Hugh Magee of Encinal.
Husband of Rosa Isabella Morgan Magee
Corpus Christi Times Corpus Christi, Texas Thursday Dec 14, 1950
Ira D.Magee
Dies at 73
in Calallen
Caller-Times News Service
CALALLEN - Ira D. Magee, 73 lifelong resident of Nueces County, former rancher, and first postmaster at Calallen, died at 5:40 a.m.
today, after an illness of two days.
His wife, Mrs. Rosa Morgan Magee, 68, died in a Corpus Christi hospital Wednesday, Dec. 6. The couple had observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary here last August at an open house held at the home of a son, Atlee Magee. Scores of friends from throughout South Texas attended.
Magee was born in Old Nuecestown on July 25, 1877, less than a year after the most famous of a series of Mexican raids on the settlement.
The community was a busy trading center ior a large part old South Texas in the 1870s. His parents were the late, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Magee, a pioneer ranch
family of Nueces County, and among- the earlier settlers in the Calallen section. Magee's father, who established ranch holdings a half century before the townsite of Calallen was established, was shot and killed Dec. 28, 1894, by cattle thieves near Bluntzer.
Magee, who served as first postmaster at Calallen, was engaged in livestock raising and agriculture for many years. At one time he was associated in ranching interests with the late Vincent Bluntzer.
Magee was a member of the Masonic Lodge.
He is survived by three sons, Atlee, Alton and James, all of Calallen; four daughters, Mrs. J. E. Baxter, Mrs. New Noakes, and Mrs. J. H. McCown, all of Calallen, and Miss Norma Magee of Corpus Christi; one sister, Mrs. A. B. Ault of Calallen; eight grandchildren, Maurice Byerly, Sally Magee, John A. Magee Jr., Richard Magee, Mary Pearl Baxter, Betty Rose McCown, Joe McCown, Michael McCown, and two great - grandchildren Danny Byerly, and Mary Katherine Byerly.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Friday at the Peel- Jackson Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Wesley Sumerlin of Benavldes and the Rev. Harold Goodenough of Grace Methodist Church, Annaville, will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Pallbearers, all nephews of Magee will be Lloyd Magee, Bruno Morgan, and E. R. Magee, Jr., of Corpus Christi; Dolph Magee and Bill Magee of Calallen and Hugh Magee of Encinal.
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