The following article was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Sunday, October 30, 1955:
Walter Deats Dies;
Funeral At 2 P.M.
Walter David Deats Sr., 78, who first came to Big Spring as a boy in 1884, died Friday evening in a hospital at Fort Worth.
Mr. Deats had been living with his son, Walter David Deats Jr., in Azle since the death of his wife on Jan. 13, 1953.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in the Nalley Chapel, with Dr. Jordan Grooms, First Methodist pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Trinity Memorial Park beside the grave of Mrs. Deats. Masonic graveside rites will be conducted and Masons will serve as pallbearers.
Mr. Deats was born in Danville, Pa., on March 19, 1877. His father, the late L. T. Deats, a railroad worker, moved to Big Spring in 1882, shortly after the T&P Railway reached this point. The family, including young Walter David, then seven, came here when accommodations became available in 1884.
Walter David Deats started working for the T&P in 1892 and stayed with the company until 1922 when he joined the Gulf Oil Company in Beaumont. He was a roundhouse foreman for the T&P in Fort Worth for 20 years.
Mr. Deats was married to Miss Nettie Everley in Big Spring in 1898. She also was one of the city's earliest citizens, having come here with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Everley, in 1886.
Shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Deats moved to Forth Worth where they lived until 1922. They lived in Beaumont for several years, resided in Mart briefly, and returned to Big Spring in 1927.
The couple operated a farm near Big Spring until 1944 when they moved to California where they lived about two years before returning to Big Spring.
Survivors include the son, Walter David Deats Jr. of Azle; one brother, Dr. C. W. Deats of Big Spring; two sisters Mrs. Alfred Moody of Big Spring and Mrs. Ethel Whitaker of Amarillo; three grandchildren and one great grandchild. One son, Earl Deats, is deceased.
Walter Deats Dies;
Funeral At 2 P.M.
Walter David Deats Sr., 78, who first came to Big Spring as a boy in 1884, died Friday evening in a hospital at Fort Worth.
Mr. Deats had been living with his son, Walter David Deats Jr., in Azle since the death of his wife on Jan. 13, 1953.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in the Nalley Chapel, with Dr. Jordan Grooms, First Methodist pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Trinity Memorial Park beside the grave of Mrs. Deats. Masonic graveside rites will be conducted and Masons will serve as pallbearers.
Mr. Deats was born in Danville, Pa., on March 19, 1877. His father, the late L. T. Deats, a railroad worker, moved to Big Spring in 1882, shortly after the T&P Railway reached this point. The family, including young Walter David, then seven, came here when accommodations became available in 1884.
Walter David Deats started working for the T&P in 1892 and stayed with the company until 1922 when he joined the Gulf Oil Company in Beaumont. He was a roundhouse foreman for the T&P in Fort Worth for 20 years.
Mr. Deats was married to Miss Nettie Everley in Big Spring in 1898. She also was one of the city's earliest citizens, having come here with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Everley, in 1886.
Shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Deats moved to Forth Worth where they lived until 1922. They lived in Beaumont for several years, resided in Mart briefly, and returned to Big Spring in 1927.
The couple operated a farm near Big Spring until 1944 when they moved to California where they lived about two years before returning to Big Spring.
Survivors include the son, Walter David Deats Jr. of Azle; one brother, Dr. C. W. Deats of Big Spring; two sisters Mrs. Alfred Moody of Big Spring and Mrs. Ethel Whitaker of Amarillo; three grandchildren and one great grandchild. One son, Earl Deats, is deceased.
The following article was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Sunday, October 30, 1955:
Walter Deats Dies;
Funeral At 2 P.M.
Walter David Deats Sr., 78, who first came to Big Spring as a boy in 1884, died Friday evening in a hospital at Fort Worth.
Mr. Deats had been living with his son, Walter David Deats Jr., in Azle since the death of his wife on Jan. 13, 1953.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in the Nalley Chapel, with Dr. Jordan Grooms, First Methodist pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Trinity Memorial Park beside the grave of Mrs. Deats. Masonic graveside rites will be conducted and Masons will serve as pallbearers.
Mr. Deats was born in Danville, Pa., on March 19, 1877. His father, the late L. T. Deats, a railroad worker, moved to Big Spring in 1882, shortly after the T&P Railway reached this point. The family, including young Walter David, then seven, came here when accommodations became available in 1884.
Walter David Deats started working for the T&P in 1892 and stayed with the company until 1922 when he joined the Gulf Oil Company in Beaumont. He was a roundhouse foreman for the T&P in Fort Worth for 20 years.
Mr. Deats was married to Miss Nettie Everley in Big Spring in 1898. She also was one of the city's earliest citizens, having come here with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Everley, in 1886.
Shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Deats moved to Forth Worth where they lived until 1922. They lived in Beaumont for several years, resided in Mart briefly, and returned to Big Spring in 1927.
The couple operated a farm near Big Spring until 1944 when they moved to California where they lived about two years before returning to Big Spring.
Survivors include the son, Walter David Deats Jr. of Azle; one brother, Dr. C. W. Deats of Big Spring; two sisters Mrs. Alfred Moody of Big Spring and Mrs. Ethel Whitaker of Amarillo; three grandchildren and one great grandchild. One son, Earl Deats, is deceased.
Walter Deats Dies;
Funeral At 2 P.M.
Walter David Deats Sr., 78, who first came to Big Spring as a boy in 1884, died Friday evening in a hospital at Fort Worth.
Mr. Deats had been living with his son, Walter David Deats Jr., in Azle since the death of his wife on Jan. 13, 1953.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in the Nalley Chapel, with Dr. Jordan Grooms, First Methodist pastor, officiating. Interment will be in the Trinity Memorial Park beside the grave of Mrs. Deats. Masonic graveside rites will be conducted and Masons will serve as pallbearers.
Mr. Deats was born in Danville, Pa., on March 19, 1877. His father, the late L. T. Deats, a railroad worker, moved to Big Spring in 1882, shortly after the T&P Railway reached this point. The family, including young Walter David, then seven, came here when accommodations became available in 1884.
Walter David Deats started working for the T&P in 1892 and stayed with the company until 1922 when he joined the Gulf Oil Company in Beaumont. He was a roundhouse foreman for the T&P in Fort Worth for 20 years.
Mr. Deats was married to Miss Nettie Everley in Big Spring in 1898. She also was one of the city's earliest citizens, having come here with her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Clinton Everley, in 1886.
Shortly after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Deats moved to Forth Worth where they lived until 1922. They lived in Beaumont for several years, resided in Mart briefly, and returned to Big Spring in 1927.
The couple operated a farm near Big Spring until 1944 when they moved to California where they lived about two years before returning to Big Spring.
Survivors include the son, Walter David Deats Jr. of Azle; one brother, Dr. C. W. Deats of Big Spring; two sisters Mrs. Alfred Moody of Big Spring and Mrs. Ethel Whitaker of Amarillo; three grandchildren and one great grandchild. One son, Earl Deats, is deceased.
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