On 14 July 1918 John married Florence Alva Thomas in Terrell, Kaufman Co., TX. From this marriage they had one son, John Benton Willbanks, Jr. ( 1922-1998).
In the 1920 TX. census John is showing working as a telephone operator for Western Union.
The 1940 CA. census, San Diego Co. San Diego shows John, Sr., Florence and John, Jr. owning home where John, Sr. worked as Toll Test Board Man for Telephone Co.
Sometime between 1940 and Jan. 1949 John and Florence were divorced. She married Claude M. Guilkey on 15 Jan 1949 in San Diego, San Diego Co., CA. He died in 1970. Florence lived her remaining life in the home of John, Sr. ( died in 1962) along with son, John, Jr. She died in 1981 and is buried in Mount Olivet Mausoleum, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX.
Obit dated 17 April 1962 from Llano paper -
" Funeral services were held here Tuesday afternoon for John Benton Willbanks, 68, Llano County native who died Saturday at his home in Fort Worth. Burial was in Board Branch Cemetery in the Lone Grove community. Willbanks is survived by a son, J. B. Willbanks, Jr. of Fort Worth; a brother, H.A. Willbanks of Wilburton, Okla.; and three sisters, Mrs. W. F. Losch of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Dovie Moreland of Plains and Mrs. Bryan Watson of Llano."
In the 1920 TX. census John is showing working as a telephone operator for Western Union.
The 1940 CA. census, San Diego Co. San Diego shows John, Sr., Florence and John, Jr. owning home where John, Sr. worked as Toll Test Board Man for Telephone Co.
Sometime between 1940 and Jan. 1949 John and Florence were divorced. She married Claude M. Guilkey on 15 Jan 1949 in San Diego, San Diego Co., CA. He died in 1970. Florence lived her remaining life in the home of John, Sr. ( died in 1962) along with son, John, Jr. She died in 1981 and is buried in Mount Olivet Mausoleum, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX.
Obit dated 17 April 1962 from Llano paper -
" Funeral services were held here Tuesday afternoon for John Benton Willbanks, 68, Llano County native who died Saturday at his home in Fort Worth. Burial was in Board Branch Cemetery in the Lone Grove community. Willbanks is survived by a son, J. B. Willbanks, Jr. of Fort Worth; a brother, H.A. Willbanks of Wilburton, Okla.; and three sisters, Mrs. W. F. Losch of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Dovie Moreland of Plains and Mrs. Bryan Watson of Llano."
On 14 July 1918 John married Florence Alva Thomas in Terrell, Kaufman Co., TX. From this marriage they had one son, John Benton Willbanks, Jr. ( 1922-1998).
In the 1920 TX. census John is showing working as a telephone operator for Western Union.
The 1940 CA. census, San Diego Co. San Diego shows John, Sr., Florence and John, Jr. owning home where John, Sr. worked as Toll Test Board Man for Telephone Co.
Sometime between 1940 and Jan. 1949 John and Florence were divorced. She married Claude M. Guilkey on 15 Jan 1949 in San Diego, San Diego Co., CA. He died in 1970. Florence lived her remaining life in the home of John, Sr. ( died in 1962) along with son, John, Jr. She died in 1981 and is buried in Mount Olivet Mausoleum, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX.
Obit dated 17 April 1962 from Llano paper -
" Funeral services were held here Tuesday afternoon for John Benton Willbanks, 68, Llano County native who died Saturday at his home in Fort Worth. Burial was in Board Branch Cemetery in the Lone Grove community. Willbanks is survived by a son, J. B. Willbanks, Jr. of Fort Worth; a brother, H.A. Willbanks of Wilburton, Okla.; and three sisters, Mrs. W. F. Losch of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Dovie Moreland of Plains and Mrs. Bryan Watson of Llano."
In the 1920 TX. census John is showing working as a telephone operator for Western Union.
The 1940 CA. census, San Diego Co. San Diego shows John, Sr., Florence and John, Jr. owning home where John, Sr. worked as Toll Test Board Man for Telephone Co.
Sometime between 1940 and Jan. 1949 John and Florence were divorced. She married Claude M. Guilkey on 15 Jan 1949 in San Diego, San Diego Co., CA. He died in 1970. Florence lived her remaining life in the home of John, Sr. ( died in 1962) along with son, John, Jr. She died in 1981 and is buried in Mount Olivet Mausoleum, Ft. Worth, Tarrant Co., TX.
Obit dated 17 April 1962 from Llano paper -
" Funeral services were held here Tuesday afternoon for John Benton Willbanks, 68, Llano County native who died Saturday at his home in Fort Worth. Burial was in Board Branch Cemetery in the Lone Grove community. Willbanks is survived by a son, J. B. Willbanks, Jr. of Fort Worth; a brother, H.A. Willbanks of Wilburton, Okla.; and three sisters, Mrs. W. F. Losch of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Dovie Moreland of Plains and Mrs. Bryan Watson of Llano."
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