Wreck Kills Dallas Clergyman After Reunion for Marine Son
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Christian Church, 120 North Oak Cliff Boulevard, for the Rev. John A. Tabor, 72, of 2843 Kingston, who was killed Saturday night in an automobile accident nears Hillsboro.
Tabor, for the last two years Valley representative of the Texas Christian Missionary Society in the rebuilding of churches, had attended a family reunion here Saturday for his son, Lt. C. Elmore Tabor, Marine Corps, who is to depart soon for overseas, and was on the way to Alice, Jim Wells County, for a Father's Day service. His automobile was involved in a collision with a bus and a truck four miles south of Hillsboro. Four other persons were injured.
He was born in Bagwell, Red River County, Feb. 15, 1872. Before entering the ministry he studied law and was a teacher in the Polytechnic Institute at Thorpe Springs which later moved to Waco and then to Fort Worth to become Texas Christian University.
Tabor was ordained in Odessa, TExas, in April, 1895. The following year he married Miss Mary Williams, who was ordained that year, and together the couple toured twenty-two northern and eastern states on the lecture platform. For sixteen years he was an evangelist in Oklahoma.
Besides Lieutenant Tabor, he is survived by another son, Don C. Tabor of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Lois Tabor McAfee and Mrs. Helen Allen of Dallas and Mrs. John H. Kellett of Houston; nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild; a brother, Jim Tabor of Dallas, and six sisters, Mrs. Susie HIckerson of Nobel, New York; Mrs. Mattie Clinksales and Mrs. Willie Camp of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Minnie Walker of Gurdon, Ark, and Mrs. Annie Walling and Mrs. Margaret Deaton of Dallas.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. Patrick Henry, Sr., state secretary of the Christian Missionary Society, assisted by the Rev. John H. Reeves, pastor of Memorial Christian Church. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Dallas Morning News (TX), June 19, 1944, Section 2, page 10
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Christian Church, 120 North Oak Cliff Boulevard, for the Rev. John A. Tabor, 72, of 2843 Kingston, who was killed Saturday night in an automobile accident nears Hillsboro.
Tabor, for the last two years Valley representative of the Texas Christian Missionary Society in the rebuilding of churches, had attended a family reunion here Saturday for his son, Lt. C. Elmore Tabor, Marine Corps, who is to depart soon for overseas, and was on the way to Alice, Jim Wells County, for a Father's Day service. His automobile was involved in a collision with a bus and a truck four miles south of Hillsboro. Four other persons were injured.
He was born in Bagwell, Red River County, Feb. 15, 1872. Before entering the ministry he studied law and was a teacher in the Polytechnic Institute at Thorpe Springs which later moved to Waco and then to Fort Worth to become Texas Christian University.
Tabor was ordained in Odessa, TExas, in April, 1895. The following year he married Miss Mary Williams, who was ordained that year, and together the couple toured twenty-two northern and eastern states on the lecture platform. For sixteen years he was an evangelist in Oklahoma.
Besides Lieutenant Tabor, he is survived by another son, Don C. Tabor of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Lois Tabor McAfee and Mrs. Helen Allen of Dallas and Mrs. John H. Kellett of Houston; nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild; a brother, Jim Tabor of Dallas, and six sisters, Mrs. Susie HIckerson of Nobel, New York; Mrs. Mattie Clinksales and Mrs. Willie Camp of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Minnie Walker of Gurdon, Ark, and Mrs. Annie Walling and Mrs. Margaret Deaton of Dallas.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. Patrick Henry, Sr., state secretary of the Christian Missionary Society, assisted by the Rev. John H. Reeves, pastor of Memorial Christian Church. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Dallas Morning News (TX), June 19, 1944, Section 2, page 10
Wreck Kills Dallas Clergyman After Reunion for Marine Son
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Christian Church, 120 North Oak Cliff Boulevard, for the Rev. John A. Tabor, 72, of 2843 Kingston, who was killed Saturday night in an automobile accident nears Hillsboro.
Tabor, for the last two years Valley representative of the Texas Christian Missionary Society in the rebuilding of churches, had attended a family reunion here Saturday for his son, Lt. C. Elmore Tabor, Marine Corps, who is to depart soon for overseas, and was on the way to Alice, Jim Wells County, for a Father's Day service. His automobile was involved in a collision with a bus and a truck four miles south of Hillsboro. Four other persons were injured.
He was born in Bagwell, Red River County, Feb. 15, 1872. Before entering the ministry he studied law and was a teacher in the Polytechnic Institute at Thorpe Springs which later moved to Waco and then to Fort Worth to become Texas Christian University.
Tabor was ordained in Odessa, TExas, in April, 1895. The following year he married Miss Mary Williams, who was ordained that year, and together the couple toured twenty-two northern and eastern states on the lecture platform. For sixteen years he was an evangelist in Oklahoma.
Besides Lieutenant Tabor, he is survived by another son, Don C. Tabor of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Lois Tabor McAfee and Mrs. Helen Allen of Dallas and Mrs. John H. Kellett of Houston; nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild; a brother, Jim Tabor of Dallas, and six sisters, Mrs. Susie HIckerson of Nobel, New York; Mrs. Mattie Clinksales and Mrs. Willie Camp of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Minnie Walker of Gurdon, Ark, and Mrs. Annie Walling and Mrs. Margaret Deaton of Dallas.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. Patrick Henry, Sr., state secretary of the Christian Missionary Society, assisted by the Rev. John H. Reeves, pastor of Memorial Christian Church. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Dallas Morning News (TX), June 19, 1944, Section 2, page 10
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Memorial Christian Church, 120 North Oak Cliff Boulevard, for the Rev. John A. Tabor, 72, of 2843 Kingston, who was killed Saturday night in an automobile accident nears Hillsboro.
Tabor, for the last two years Valley representative of the Texas Christian Missionary Society in the rebuilding of churches, had attended a family reunion here Saturday for his son, Lt. C. Elmore Tabor, Marine Corps, who is to depart soon for overseas, and was on the way to Alice, Jim Wells County, for a Father's Day service. His automobile was involved in a collision with a bus and a truck four miles south of Hillsboro. Four other persons were injured.
He was born in Bagwell, Red River County, Feb. 15, 1872. Before entering the ministry he studied law and was a teacher in the Polytechnic Institute at Thorpe Springs which later moved to Waco and then to Fort Worth to become Texas Christian University.
Tabor was ordained in Odessa, TExas, in April, 1895. The following year he married Miss Mary Williams, who was ordained that year, and together the couple toured twenty-two northern and eastern states on the lecture platform. For sixteen years he was an evangelist in Oklahoma.
Besides Lieutenant Tabor, he is survived by another son, Don C. Tabor of Dallas; three daughters, Mrs. Lois Tabor McAfee and Mrs. Helen Allen of Dallas and Mrs. John H. Kellett of Houston; nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild; a brother, Jim Tabor of Dallas, and six sisters, Mrs. Susie HIckerson of Nobel, New York; Mrs. Mattie Clinksales and Mrs. Willie Camp of Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Minnie Walker of Gurdon, Ark, and Mrs. Annie Walling and Mrs. Margaret Deaton of Dallas.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. Patrick Henry, Sr., state secretary of the Christian Missionary Society, assisted by the Rev. John H. Reeves, pastor of Memorial Christian Church. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Dallas Morning News (TX), June 19, 1944, Section 2, page 10
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