The Paris News
Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003
COOPER--Ray Banks, Sr., 79 of Cooper passed away Sunday, Dec. 14, 2003 at Paris Nursing Home, where he received loving care.
Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Delta Funeral Home Chapel with Elmer L'Roy of Paris and Gary Kesting officiating. Interment will follow in Oaklawn Cemetery in Cooper.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at Delta Funeral Home.
He was born July 13, 1924, in Cooper, the son of Elisha Banks and Iva Brackeen Banks. He had owned and operated Banks Furniture Store in Cooper since 1952. He was a member of the Klondike Church of Christ.
On Aug. 18, 1945, he married Ophelia Preston in Cooper.
Survivors include his wife, Ophelia Banks of Cooper; two sons, Ray Banks and wife, Sue Banks, of Paris and Michael Banks of Cooper; two grandsons, David Banks and wife, Susanne Banks, of Dallas and Jason Banks and wife, Lisa Banks, of Grand Prairie; one great-grandson, Joshua Ray Banks of Dallas; one brother, Jerry Banks of Heath; and four sisters, Frances Thompson of Paris, Louise Smith of Arlington, Jo Rita Powell of Houston and Nina Lewis of Arlington.
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Sources: US Social Security Death Index
Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
The Paris News
Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2003
COOPER--Ray Banks, Sr., 79 of Cooper passed away Sunday, Dec. 14, 2003 at Paris Nursing Home, where he received loving care.
Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at Delta Funeral Home Chapel with Elmer L'Roy of Paris and Gary Kesting officiating. Interment will follow in Oaklawn Cemetery in Cooper.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, at Delta Funeral Home.
He was born July 13, 1924, in Cooper, the son of Elisha Banks and Iva Brackeen Banks. He had owned and operated Banks Furniture Store in Cooper since 1952. He was a member of the Klondike Church of Christ.
On Aug. 18, 1945, he married Ophelia Preston in Cooper.
Survivors include his wife, Ophelia Banks of Cooper; two sons, Ray Banks and wife, Sue Banks, of Paris and Michael Banks of Cooper; two grandsons, David Banks and wife, Susanne Banks, of Dallas and Jason Banks and wife, Lisa Banks, of Grand Prairie; one great-grandson, Joshua Ray Banks of Dallas; one brother, Jerry Banks of Heath; and four sisters, Frances Thompson of Paris, Louise Smith of Arlington, Jo Rita Powell of Houston and Nina Lewis of Arlington.
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Sources: US Social Security Death Index
Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
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