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Obit: THE CORPUS CHRISTI TIMES, Corpus Christi, Texas, Monday, March 19, 1951, p. 17
"Mrs. Kate Cavness
Funeral services for Mrs. Kate Buchanan Cavness, 75, mother of Dr. R.M. Cavness, president of the University of Corpus Christi, were conducted today at 10 a.m. at Morgan Avenue Baptist Church. Officiating ministers were the Reverends J. Roy Clark of the Morgan Avenue Baptist Church, Carl E. Hereford of the First Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, and Kermit Mclugin, of the First Baptist Church in Robstown.
Burial was to be at San Marcos at 4:30 p.m. today with Dr. William McNeil officiating. Pallbearers were grandsons of Mrs. Cavness. They were Allan Esse, Tom E. Knighton, William H. Cavness, Donald W. Cavness, Joe R. Cavness and Lattimore Cavness.
Mrs. Cavness, 1431 Twelfth, died in a local hospital yesterday at 5:20 a.m. following a lengthy illness.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the Morgan Avenue Baptist Church. She and her husband, the late W. M. Cavness, were school teachers.
Survivors include, besides Dr. Cavness, one other son, Texas State Auditor C. H. Cavness of Austin; two daughters, Mrs. Herbert Esse of Corpus Christi and Mrs. Tom H. Knighton of Canyon; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Shell of Lynchburg, Va. and Mrs. E. F. Smith of Los Angeles.
Cage-Mills Funeral Home was in charge of local arrangements."
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Obituary provided by Cindie Lue Guffey
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Obit: THE CORPUS CHRISTI TIMES, Corpus Christi, Texas, Monday, March 19, 1951, p. 17
"Mrs. Kate Cavness
Funeral services for Mrs. Kate Buchanan Cavness, 75, mother of Dr. R.M. Cavness, president of the University of Corpus Christi, were conducted today at 10 a.m. at Morgan Avenue Baptist Church. Officiating ministers were the Reverends J. Roy Clark of the Morgan Avenue Baptist Church, Carl E. Hereford of the First Baptist Church, Corpus Christi, and Kermit Mclugin, of the First Baptist Church in Robstown.
Burial was to be at San Marcos at 4:30 p.m. today with Dr. William McNeil officiating. Pallbearers were grandsons of Mrs. Cavness. They were Allan Esse, Tom E. Knighton, William H. Cavness, Donald W. Cavness, Joe R. Cavness and Lattimore Cavness.
Mrs. Cavness, 1431 Twelfth, died in a local hospital yesterday at 5:20 a.m. following a lengthy illness.
She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the Morgan Avenue Baptist Church. She and her husband, the late W. M. Cavness, were school teachers.
Survivors include, besides Dr. Cavness, one other son, Texas State Auditor C. H. Cavness of Austin; two daughters, Mrs. Herbert Esse of Corpus Christi and Mrs. Tom H. Knighton of Canyon; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Shell of Lynchburg, Va. and Mrs. E. F. Smith of Los Angeles.
Cage-Mills Funeral Home was in charge of local arrangements."
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Obituary provided by Cindie Lue Guffey
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Gravesite Details
To the left of Kates' stone is a DAR marker.
Family Members
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Charles Russell Buchanan
1869–1931
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Nannie Graham Buchanan Beall
1871–1924
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Martha Rachel "Mattie" Buchanan Trimble
1874–1947
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Helen Amanda Buchanan Mellard
1875–1949
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Nelli Campbell Buchanan
1880–1901
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Georgie Lee Buchanan Egerton
1882–1947
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Sarah Craig "Sallie" Buchanan Heard
1884–1930
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Mary Keturah Buchanan Shell
1886–1958
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Bessie Wynne Buchanan Smith
1888–1975
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Pvt Joseph Benjamin "Joe Ben" Buchanan
1890–1921
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