Pigford Rites Will Be Held Here Today

Funeral services for Mrs. Bess Stovall Pigford, 80, will be held at 2 p.m. today in the First United Methodist Church.

Rev. Marvin James, pastor, will officiate, and burial will be in Clarendon.

Pallbearers will be Sam Miller, Troy Collins, Gary Smothermon, Odis Smothermon, Eddie Leary, Homer Compton Jr., Jim Moody and Charles Carter.

Mrs. Pigford died at 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the Northwest Texas Hospital after an illness of 12 days.

She was born December 7, 1893 in Hempstead, Texas, and married Sam Pigford in Clayton, N.M., in August of 1926.

They moved to Childress in 1941 from Newlin and he died January 31 [sic], 1950.

After his death she operated a broading [sic] house here for several years and was operating the HiWay Cafe at the time of her death.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Billy Joe Atkinson of Childress and two grandsons, Joe Bruce Atkinson of Childress and Billy Don Atkinson, a student at Texas Tech.

She was a member of the Childress Chapter of the Eastern Star and was active in the Burlington Auxiliary for several years.

(Published in The Childress Index (Childress, Texas) - 13 Jan 1974, Sun • Page 1)
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Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Bessie Pigford
Death Date: 12 Jan 1974
Death County: Potter
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Widowed

Texas, U.S., Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Bessie Stovall Pigford [Bessie Stovall Pioture]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 80
Birth Date: 7 Dec 1893
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Childress, Childress, Texas, USA
Death Date: 12 Jan 1974
Death Place: Amarillo, Potter, Texas, USA
Father: John Pioture
Mother: Mary Beatrice Williford
Certificate Number: 05018

U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Bessie Pigford
Birth Date: 7 Dec 1893
Issue Year: Before 1951
Issue State: Texas
Last Residence: 79201, Childress, Childress, Texas, USA
Death Date: Jan 1974