Burial will follow in North Belton Cemetery.
Mr. Frazier died Tuesday, Dec. 1, in a Temple hospital.
He was born on Oct. 18, 1922, to Otto Simon and Eunice Morgan Frazier in Mexia. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He attended East New Mexico University where he received a degree in accounting. He worked in Hobbs, N.M., as a certified public accountant for many years. He was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 63 in Hobbs where he served as lodge master and was a 32nd degree Mason affiliated with Shriners and the Scottish Rite organization. He married Thelma Pearl Newbill Merrell on April 10, 1950, in Portales, N.M. He was a member of the Methodist church. He was preceded in death by a son, Eugene Guy Frazier.
Survivors include his wife of Belton; three sons, Gerald Don Merrell of Tucson, Ariz., Richard Allen Merrell of Belton and Michael Frazier of Houston; two brothers, Erskine Frazier of Portales, N.M., and Ervin Frazier of Orlando, Fla.; two sisters, Cora Mae Drennan of Hot Springs, Ark., and Irene McKissack of Temple; 10 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Burial will follow in North Belton Cemetery.
Mr. Frazier died Tuesday, Dec. 1, in a Temple hospital.
He was born on Oct. 18, 1922, to Otto Simon and Eunice Morgan Frazier in Mexia. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He attended East New Mexico University where he received a degree in accounting. He worked in Hobbs, N.M., as a certified public accountant for many years. He was a member of Masonic Lodge No. 63 in Hobbs where he served as lodge master and was a 32nd degree Mason affiliated with Shriners and the Scottish Rite organization. He married Thelma Pearl Newbill Merrell on April 10, 1950, in Portales, N.M. He was a member of the Methodist church. He was preceded in death by a son, Eugene Guy Frazier.
Survivors include his wife of Belton; three sons, Gerald Don Merrell of Tucson, Ariz., Richard Allen Merrell of Belton and Michael Frazier of Houston; two brothers, Erskine Frazier of Portales, N.M., and Ervin Frazier of Orlando, Fla.; two sisters, Cora Mae Drennan of Hot Springs, Ark., and Irene McKissack of Temple; 10 grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
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