Thursday morning, April 9, 1964
The Abilene Reporter-News
REV. SAM MALONE SUCCUMBS AT 78
SEMINOLE - The Rev. Sam Malone, 78, widely known West Texas minister and newspaperman who was professor of Bible and journalism at Hardin-Simmons University in the late 1920s and early 1930s, died at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Lubbock Methodist Hospital. He had been a patient there three weeks but suffered from an extended illness. He had lived in Seminole since 1949.
Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in South Seminole Baptist Church with the Rev. Byron Bryant, director of religious activities at H-SU, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Preston Florence of Seminole and the Rev. John Gillespie, pastor. Burial will be in Seminole Cemetery under direction of Singleton Funeral Home.
Born Sept. 8, 1885 in Abilene, he was graduated from Hardin-Simmons in 1921, having started in 1902. Typhoid fever and publishing the Seminole Sentinal from 1910 to 1914 interrupted his schooling.
He helped organize South Seminole Baptist Church in 1949. He was a member of the Seminole Masonic Lodge.
He owned and edited the Seminole Sentinel two different times during his career.
Surviving are his wife, Georgia Ann; two daughters, Mrs. Chester Evans of Amarillo and Mrs. Kenneth Nelson of Houston; three sons, Robert J. of Seninole, Sam S. of Nacogdoches and Jerry D. of Abilene, minister of music and education at South Side Baptist Church in Abilene; a sister, Mrs. John Elam of Lamesa; a brother, Will of Plainview, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The Abilene Reporter-News
REV. SAM MALONE SUCCUMBS AT 78
SEMINOLE - The Rev. Sam Malone, 78, widely known West Texas minister and newspaperman who was professor of Bible and journalism at Hardin-Simmons University in the late 1920s and early 1930s, died at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Lubbock Methodist Hospital. He had been a patient there three weeks but suffered from an extended illness. He had lived in Seminole since 1949.
Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in South Seminole Baptist Church with the Rev. Byron Bryant, director of religious activities at H-SU, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Preston Florence of Seminole and the Rev. John Gillespie, pastor. Burial will be in Seminole Cemetery under direction of Singleton Funeral Home.
Born Sept. 8, 1885 in Abilene, he was graduated from Hardin-Simmons in 1921, having started in 1902. Typhoid fever and publishing the Seminole Sentinal from 1910 to 1914 interrupted his schooling.
He helped organize South Seminole Baptist Church in 1949. He was a member of the Seminole Masonic Lodge.
He owned and edited the Seminole Sentinel two different times during his career.
Surviving are his wife, Georgia Ann; two daughters, Mrs. Chester Evans of Amarillo and Mrs. Kenneth Nelson of Houston; three sons, Robert J. of Seninole, Sam S. of Nacogdoches and Jerry D. of Abilene, minister of music and education at South Side Baptist Church in Abilene; a sister, Mrs. John Elam of Lamesa; a brother, Will of Plainview, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Thursday morning, April 9, 1964
The Abilene Reporter-News
REV. SAM MALONE SUCCUMBS AT 78
SEMINOLE - The Rev. Sam Malone, 78, widely known West Texas minister and newspaperman who was professor of Bible and journalism at Hardin-Simmons University in the late 1920s and early 1930s, died at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Lubbock Methodist Hospital. He had been a patient there three weeks but suffered from an extended illness. He had lived in Seminole since 1949.
Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in South Seminole Baptist Church with the Rev. Byron Bryant, director of religious activities at H-SU, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Preston Florence of Seminole and the Rev. John Gillespie, pastor. Burial will be in Seminole Cemetery under direction of Singleton Funeral Home.
Born Sept. 8, 1885 in Abilene, he was graduated from Hardin-Simmons in 1921, having started in 1902. Typhoid fever and publishing the Seminole Sentinal from 1910 to 1914 interrupted his schooling.
He helped organize South Seminole Baptist Church in 1949. He was a member of the Seminole Masonic Lodge.
He owned and edited the Seminole Sentinel two different times during his career.
Surviving are his wife, Georgia Ann; two daughters, Mrs. Chester Evans of Amarillo and Mrs. Kenneth Nelson of Houston; three sons, Robert J. of Seninole, Sam S. of Nacogdoches and Jerry D. of Abilene, minister of music and education at South Side Baptist Church in Abilene; a sister, Mrs. John Elam of Lamesa; a brother, Will of Plainview, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
The Abilene Reporter-News
REV. SAM MALONE SUCCUMBS AT 78
SEMINOLE - The Rev. Sam Malone, 78, widely known West Texas minister and newspaperman who was professor of Bible and journalism at Hardin-Simmons University in the late 1920s and early 1930s, died at 8 a.m. Wednesday in Lubbock Methodist Hospital. He had been a patient there three weeks but suffered from an extended illness. He had lived in Seminole since 1949.
Funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in South Seminole Baptist Church with the Rev. Byron Bryant, director of religious activities at H-SU, officiating, assisted by the Rev. Preston Florence of Seminole and the Rev. John Gillespie, pastor. Burial will be in Seminole Cemetery under direction of Singleton Funeral Home.
Born Sept. 8, 1885 in Abilene, he was graduated from Hardin-Simmons in 1921, having started in 1902. Typhoid fever and publishing the Seminole Sentinal from 1910 to 1914 interrupted his schooling.
He helped organize South Seminole Baptist Church in 1949. He was a member of the Seminole Masonic Lodge.
He owned and edited the Seminole Sentinel two different times during his career.
Surviving are his wife, Georgia Ann; two daughters, Mrs. Chester Evans of Amarillo and Mrs. Kenneth Nelson of Houston; three sons, Robert J. of Seninole, Sam S. of Nacogdoches and Jerry D. of Abilene, minister of music and education at South Side Baptist Church in Abilene; a sister, Mrs. John Elam of Lamesa; a brother, Will of Plainview, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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