Final rites for Percy Covington Ponder,76,Route 1,Como,were held at the Greenpond Baptist Church at 2:30 p.m.Thursday ,with the Rev.Carl Acker and the Rev.James Warren officiating .Internment followed in Greenpond Cemetery with nephews serving as pallbearers .
Mr. Ponder ,a retired employee of A.P.Green Fire Brick Company and farmer, died at 11:40 a.m.Wednesday at Memorial Hospital.
He was born Dec.23,1896 in Hunt County, son of Frank and Nobie Whatley Ponder . He was married to Miss Ethel Stinson in Hopkins County ,Jan.18 ,1920.
Survivors include his wife ,a son P.J.Ponder of Yantis:a daughter ,Mrs.Linda Hopper of Como ;four brothers ,Fred Ponder of Sherley ,Robert Ponder of Commerce ,Duval Ponder of Reilly Springs ,and John Ponder of Massachusetts; a sister ,Mrs.Carl Starrett of Sulphur Springs ,and two grandsons .
Tapp Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements .
Sulphur Springs News Paper .
Final rites for Percy Covington Ponder,76,Route 1,Como,were held at the Greenpond Baptist Church at 2:30 p.m.Thursday ,with the Rev.Carl Acker and the Rev.James Warren officiating .Internment followed in Greenpond Cemetery with nephews serving as pallbearers .
Mr. Ponder ,a retired employee of A.P.Green Fire Brick Company and farmer, died at 11:40 a.m.Wednesday at Memorial Hospital.
He was born Dec.23,1896 in Hunt County, son of Frank and Nobie Whatley Ponder . He was married to Miss Ethel Stinson in Hopkins County ,Jan.18 ,1920.
Survivors include his wife ,a son P.J.Ponder of Yantis:a daughter ,Mrs.Linda Hopper of Como ;four brothers ,Fred Ponder of Sherley ,Robert Ponder of Commerce ,Duval Ponder of Reilly Springs ,and John Ponder of Massachusetts; a sister ,Mrs.Carl Starrett of Sulphur Springs ,and two grandsons .
Tapp Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements .
Sulphur Springs News Paper .
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