OBITUARY
S. W. Wilbor, 85, former president of Southland Cotton Oil Company, who lived at 528 S. Main St., died Monday about 5:40 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris. He had been a patient there since June. Funeral services, Wednesday at 11 a.m., will be held at Holy Cross Episcopal Church, the rector, the Rev. James W. O'Connell, officiating. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery by Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home.
Born in Huron, Ohio, Aug 14, 1876, Stark W. Wilbor was a son of Stark and Mary Isabel (Fairchild) Wilbor. He came to Waco in 1886, and had been associated with Southland Cotton Oil Company since 1904, first as general manager and later as president. He was president when its controlling stock in the company was sold to Interstate Cotton Oil Refining Company of Sherman, about 1945, later retiring. At the time of the transfer, the 'Cotton and Cotton Oil Press' said, 'Southland is one of the soundest and best-managed oil mill concerns in the industry. Its president, S.W. Wilbor, has had a long and distinguished career in the industry and is past president of the Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association.
In recent years, he had taken active part in various local civic and cultural affairs, having directed the expansion and development program of Paris Public Library; serving as charter president of The Knife and Fork Club; chairman of Paris Junior College Ex-Students Memorial Endowment; and as endowment fund chairman of Holy Cross Church, which he had served as warden and vestryman during the years. He was a Mason and former president of Paris Golf and Country Club.
Mrs. Wilbor, the former Elizabeth (Black) Lawrence, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. J.K. Black here, died Jul 18, 1957. The only immediate survivors are a niece, Mrs. Benton Brooks, Wichita, Kan., and three nephews, Douglas Wilbor, Joplin, Mo.; Paul Wilbor, Cleveland, Ohio, and Stark Wilbor, Oklahoma City, Okla., where a sister-in-law, Mrs. R.D. Wilbor, lives also.
--from The Paris News, Tuesday, Sep 12, 1961, page 1-2
S. W. Wilbor, 85, former president of Southland Cotton Oil Company, who lived at 528 S. Main St., died Monday about 5:40 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris. He had been a patient there since June. Funeral services, Wednesday at 11 a.m., will be held at Holy Cross Episcopal Church, the rector, the Rev. James W. O'Connell, officiating. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery by Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home.
Born in Huron, Ohio, Aug 14, 1876, Stark W. Wilbor was a son of Stark and Mary Isabel (Fairchild) Wilbor. He came to Waco in 1886, and had been associated with Southland Cotton Oil Company since 1904, first as general manager and later as president. He was president when its controlling stock in the company was sold to Interstate Cotton Oil Refining Company of Sherman, about 1945, later retiring. At the time of the transfer, the 'Cotton and Cotton Oil Press' said, 'Southland is one of the soundest and best-managed oil mill concerns in the industry. Its president, S.W. Wilbor, has had a long and distinguished career in the industry and is past president of the Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association.
In recent years, he had taken active part in various local civic and cultural affairs, having directed the expansion and development program of Paris Public Library; serving as charter president of The Knife and Fork Club; chairman of Paris Junior College Ex-Students Memorial Endowment; and as endowment fund chairman of Holy Cross Church, which he had served as warden and vestryman during the years. He was a Mason and former president of Paris Golf and Country Club.
Mrs. Wilbor, the former Elizabeth (Black) Lawrence, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. J.K. Black here, died Jul 18, 1957. The only immediate survivors are a niece, Mrs. Benton Brooks, Wichita, Kan., and three nephews, Douglas Wilbor, Joplin, Mo.; Paul Wilbor, Cleveland, Ohio, and Stark Wilbor, Oklahoma City, Okla., where a sister-in-law, Mrs. R.D. Wilbor, lives also.
--from The Paris News, Tuesday, Sep 12, 1961, page 1-2
OBITUARY
S. W. Wilbor, 85, former president of Southland Cotton Oil Company, who lived at 528 S. Main St., died Monday about 5:40 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris. He had been a patient there since June. Funeral services, Wednesday at 11 a.m., will be held at Holy Cross Episcopal Church, the rector, the Rev. James W. O'Connell, officiating. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery by Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home.
Born in Huron, Ohio, Aug 14, 1876, Stark W. Wilbor was a son of Stark and Mary Isabel (Fairchild) Wilbor. He came to Waco in 1886, and had been associated with Southland Cotton Oil Company since 1904, first as general manager and later as president. He was president when its controlling stock in the company was sold to Interstate Cotton Oil Refining Company of Sherman, about 1945, later retiring. At the time of the transfer, the 'Cotton and Cotton Oil Press' said, 'Southland is one of the soundest and best-managed oil mill concerns in the industry. Its president, S.W. Wilbor, has had a long and distinguished career in the industry and is past president of the Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association.
In recent years, he had taken active part in various local civic and cultural affairs, having directed the expansion and development program of Paris Public Library; serving as charter president of The Knife and Fork Club; chairman of Paris Junior College Ex-Students Memorial Endowment; and as endowment fund chairman of Holy Cross Church, which he had served as warden and vestryman during the years. He was a Mason and former president of Paris Golf and Country Club.
Mrs. Wilbor, the former Elizabeth (Black) Lawrence, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. J.K. Black here, died Jul 18, 1957. The only immediate survivors are a niece, Mrs. Benton Brooks, Wichita, Kan., and three nephews, Douglas Wilbor, Joplin, Mo.; Paul Wilbor, Cleveland, Ohio, and Stark Wilbor, Oklahoma City, Okla., where a sister-in-law, Mrs. R.D. Wilbor, lives also.
--from The Paris News, Tuesday, Sep 12, 1961, page 1-2
S. W. Wilbor, 85, former president of Southland Cotton Oil Company, who lived at 528 S. Main St., died Monday about 5:40 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris. He had been a patient there since June. Funeral services, Wednesday at 11 a.m., will be held at Holy Cross Episcopal Church, the rector, the Rev. James W. O'Connell, officiating. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery by Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home.
Born in Huron, Ohio, Aug 14, 1876, Stark W. Wilbor was a son of Stark and Mary Isabel (Fairchild) Wilbor. He came to Waco in 1886, and had been associated with Southland Cotton Oil Company since 1904, first as general manager and later as president. He was president when its controlling stock in the company was sold to Interstate Cotton Oil Refining Company of Sherman, about 1945, later retiring. At the time of the transfer, the 'Cotton and Cotton Oil Press' said, 'Southland is one of the soundest and best-managed oil mill concerns in the industry. Its president, S.W. Wilbor, has had a long and distinguished career in the industry and is past president of the Texas Cottonseed Crushers Association.
In recent years, he had taken active part in various local civic and cultural affairs, having directed the expansion and development program of Paris Public Library; serving as charter president of The Knife and Fork Club; chairman of Paris Junior College Ex-Students Memorial Endowment; and as endowment fund chairman of Holy Cross Church, which he had served as warden and vestryman during the years. He was a Mason and former president of Paris Golf and Country Club.
Mrs. Wilbor, the former Elizabeth (Black) Lawrence, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. J.K. Black here, died Jul 18, 1957. The only immediate survivors are a niece, Mrs. Benton Brooks, Wichita, Kan., and three nephews, Douglas Wilbor, Joplin, Mo.; Paul Wilbor, Cleveland, Ohio, and Stark Wilbor, Oklahoma City, Okla., where a sister-in-law, Mrs. R.D. Wilbor, lives also.
--from The Paris News, Tuesday, Sep 12, 1961, page 1-2
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