Conger Obituaries
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from Zoe Tom -- zoetom@cox.net
David Frederick
Conger passed away in 2007. Now his father, Harold Frederick Conger, just passed
away.
The family is making contact with any nieces and
nephews of Harold Frederick Conger and this would mean the children of Herbert George
Conger. Do have any record of their names in the Conger book? Dave's daughter has
asked me to check on this situation. I don't know where Herbert's children
are. Maybe in New Mexico, maybe in Hawaii, maybe elsewhere. Can you help me?
We want to notify them of their uncle's passing at age 95.
Helen Maxine Leonard
Waverly, Iowa
Born in Des Moines, Iowa on April 5, 1919
Died in Waverly, Iowa on October 2, 2005
Burial services held October 6, 2005 at Oakland Cemetery, Janesville, Iowa
The following is transcribed, with permision from the obituary posted by
Kaiser-Corson Funeral Homes Inc. web page. Our thoughts and prayers are with Maxine's
daughters and son during this time of loss.
Helen Maxine Leonard drew her first
breath on April 5, 1919 in Des Moines, Iowa and returned to her Heavenly Father during the
early morning hours of October 2, 2005 while in hospice care at the Bartels Lutheran
Retirement Community in Waverly, Iowa
Maxine was the daughter of Henry and Violet (Wright) Crowell. She spent her first 25 years
engaged in a flurry of creative activities ranging from becoming an award winning drummer
in her high school orchestra and marching band, singing as a regular on a Saturday morning
"Teen Frolic" radio broadcast on (radio station) WHO when Ronald Reagan was a
D.J., writing a regular column for her school newspapaer and modeling for magazines that
were being published in Des Moines at the time.
In 1944 she married Laurence Otto Leonard and began her journey as a career military man's
wife, welcoming the opportunity to live in many places and meet and make many new friends.
In her late thirties, Maxine was stricken with acute rheumatoid
arthritis, found herself bedridden and with little hope given from the traditional
mainstream medical world. Never complaining, she began what became a lifelong exploration
of the alternative remedies and treatments with great success. During this time she
discovered a passion for researching family history and published 13 books on the subject
-- several in rare book libraries on the east coast. Later she was asked to write the
history of Janesville during the year of their 125th celebration. For 20 years, Maxine
wrote and published her church newsletter as well as a family quarterly and a
newsletter for Larry's cavalry unit, still finding time to sing in the Sweet Adeleines and
direct the Waterloo Mothers Chorus.
In retirement, Maxine loved traveling here and abroad, visiting
old friends and family as much as she reveled in the private tranquility of her country
home, with a cat purring in her lap while she and Larry identified birds at the bird
feeder.
Maxine is survived by her birth son, Brant Warren Leonard of
Travers City, Michigan, Hans Martin (Joyce) Leonard of Green Ridge, Missouri, and Karin
Maria Leonard of Cedar Falls, Iowa whom they adopted as children while they were stationed
in Austria, as well as 9 grandchildren and her cat. She was preceded in death by her
parents, her beloved partner, Larry, her prankster brother Floyd Crowell, her precious boy
Brian and her 15 year old lightfilled granddaughter Adrianne Leonard Eacret.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 1:00 p.m. at the Good
Shepherd Chapel (Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community) in Waverly, with Ken Shaw
presiding. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery in Janesville. Visitation will be held on
Wednesday from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Kaiser-COrson Funeral Home in Waverly
and also for an hour before services on Thursday at the Good Shepherd Chapel. Please
direct memorials to the Cedar Valley Hospice or www.kaisercorson.com
STILL THE BOSS
EULOGY OF MAXINE LEONARD OCTOBER 6, 2005
JOSEPH BEENKEN
Karin, Brant and Hans this is a great honor to be standing here today. Thank
you.
The banner on the casket spray "Still the Boss" came about the other day
as the Hospice staff was moving Maxine on her bed and she said "Don’t move
me" and just to leave her lay the way she was. Karin told her "Don’t
worry Mommy, your Still the Boss.
Maxine felt reading the obituary was unnecessary since we’ve all read it before the
service starts. So if you haven’t read it, do so later. Hers was an
amazing life. And if you haven’t see the life album that she put together look
at that.
I worked in business for 30 years and endured annual performance appraisals.
Inevitably they will focus on the last couple of months instead of that year or an
entire career. So within a few minutes today I want to share not the life of Maxine
but the last couple of years of the 25 years that Sheryl and I knew Maxine. First as
the chorister of the Cedar Falls congregation of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints and finally as the closest thing to a Mother and Grandmother to both of us.
Sheryl or I saw her at least twice a week for one reason or another the past several
years.
The picture over there fits so into her plan as the "Boss" to go home to our
Heavenly Father at this time of year. She would receive therapeutic massages from my
wife or me on our portable table in her living room. Each time she sat up on the
table she would look at that picture and say. "Isn’t it beautiful?"
I want to sit here for a second, this is the perfect angle for me to see the
path and the beauty of the fall colors." The clothing that you saw her
earthly body in was a part of her Path. They are the temple robes of a
faithful Christian and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and
reflect a deep commitment to God and His Son Jesus Christ. She wears them because of
her absolute belief in the eternalness of Mankind and the day of Resurrection we all look
forward to.
Last night I got on the computer and typed a search for my name Joe Beenken and found
nothing. I typed Maxine Leonard and found several references to her and the books
that she and Larry published. I found that the Conger family already mourns the loss
of it’s genealogical matriarch. And this photo of her with the Conger plate.
"Still the Boss".
Three weeks ago she told me that she felt ashamed to pray to Heavenly Father for healing
when so many had lost so much in Hurricane Katrina. So family wishes of memorials
being sent to storm relief is so poignantly appropriate. "Still the Boss."
Maxine was always the Boss. Whether it was writing and mailing a letter to every
member of the US House and Senate this past spring telling them what was wrong with major
government policy issues and how to fix them. She told them all to give up their
last self-given pay raise and use that money to fund the notch baby social security
problem. She knew it wouldn’t happen but "you get the government you
deserve".
Engaging her in a logical debate on a subject soon showed you
that for a woman in her mid 80’s her mind was sharper than most of ours every will
be. If you were ever given one of your congressional letters to read. OR told
to "sit down on the couch" and "asked to" listen to her read the
letter you were always amazed at the clarity of thought and the subtle humor she used on
the politicians. "Always the Boss"
Last year when her drivers license came do, she was worried about getting it renewed but
needed it for when she would go to the dentist or optician. Medical doctor trips
where not a concern. She had no high blood pressure, no diabetes, no aches or pains.
She had asked the Lord for no pain with the severe rheumatoid arthritis she had and
he had granted her prayer, so no pain pills or antibiotics. With the bones in her
toes removed because of the arthritis she walked with a wobble. And this is what the
license inspector saw and so required her to take a driving test. To a lot of us the
inspector wanted to fail her "AN OLD LADY" and did for not signaling a
turn 150 foot before an intersection. Maxine didn’t give up.
Another week another driving test. Another here’s why I’m
failing you this time. Another week another driving test. Another here’s
why I’m failing you this time. Maxine could keep taking the test and wear her
down or do the appeal process. The state of Iowa got the appeal letter with wording
of "age discrimination" . A different inspector was assigned and
Maxine passed the driving test. "Always the Boss".
She had dearly hoped to see the new Latter Day Saint chapel being built here in Waverly
and somehow attend church services there. She was so happy when people would take
her there or show her pictures. The Church will be completed in January with
an open house in the spring for all to see. When we go to the cemetery later the
procession will past by the Church for her. "Still the Boss"
She had a great way of asking for a favor or an errand. Sometimes you really thought
that you were volunteering instead of being told that you would do it.
Always the Boss
Many of us can remember that cute little tilted head when she didn’t understand what
we had just said. It wasn’t that she needed a hearing aid - we just need to
speak up and be directly in front of her. So what did we do - Stand Straighter and
Speak Louder. Always the Boss.
She showed a deep respect and love for the freedoms of this great nation and a deep
concern for it’s future. If you went to her apartment at night she
was always watching the world news and commentaries. She would quiz you on
your views and knowledge of the days events. She knew the names of the party leaders
both the House and Senate, the voting history and names of the Supreme Court judges
and many others. If you thought she was a Republican you where wrong.
She could get just as mad at them as at the Democrats. She was the American we
all should strive to be. And yes the TV was loud. "Still the
Boss"
Maxine saw material needs at Bartels and quietly filled them with purchases. The big
screen TV in the Eichorn House dining room is there because the old one didn‘t have
close captioning and she thought the residents should have that. The Lord sent her
some money in the mail that she didn’t think she was getting one day and so the TV
happened. The fish aquarium in Linden Place is there so that the folks there can
have something to look at. The TV in Woodland Terrance was given for the same
reason. The flower lamps "where ever they are now here at Bartels" for the
same reason - to help others to be more comfortable.
So to sum up Maxine’s performance appraisal I read from St Matthew in the King James
Bible that she so loved. Mathew chapter 25: 15 - 21.
In the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
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Joyce Posey of Riverside, Ohio
died September 1, 2005 and was buried September 6
News of her death came from Deb and Scott Posey September 7. I replied that Joyce
was a reader of Conger Confab, a good person from what I could tell. Robert Guilinger had
given her Confab subscriptions for years. I responded to Deb & Scott's email asking
for a copy of the newspaper obituary so I could transcribe it for this website. Its
arrival is pending . . .
Roy Conger
August 13, 1924 - May 30, 2005 |
It has come to our
unfortunate attention that our long-time member Roy Conger passed away yesterday
afternoon, May 30, at his home.
Roy owned and operated Watseka Electric Company in Watseka
since 1949 and was active in city government there. He was a dual member of NECA being
involved with both the Illinois Chapter as a member of the
Champaign-Urbana/Streator-Pontiac Division and the Eastern Illinois Chapter, serving as
Vice President until his retirement earlier this year. In addition to being a NECA member
for over 50 years, he was a member of Local 134 for 58 years, served on the H & W
Board of Local 176, served on the Bd. of Directors of Iroquois Federal, belonged to
American Legion Post #23, the Watseka Elks, and was in the Watseka Area Chamber of
Commerce for nearly 40 years serving as Vice President for several years. He was also one
of the founders of The Classic Thunderbird Owners Club for the Chicagoland Area and was a
WWII veteran serving in the U.S. Navy.
Roy is survived by his wife, Dorothy Conger of Watseka, two
daughters, Barbara Conger of Naperville, and Marilyn Conger of Watseka. A sister, Lorraine
Volkman of Oak Lawn also survives him.
Services will be held in Watseka at the Segur-Knapp Funeral Home,
219 South 4th Street, Watseka, IL. The Wake will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday
June 3, and the funeral will be at 11:00 am Saturday, June 4.
Memorials may be made to the Iroquois Memorial Hospice, 841 South
4th Street, Watseka, Il 60970, or to a charity of your choice.
-- Thanks to Thea Chesley for sharing the news of Roy Conger's death.
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Subject: Obituary of Clement Ellis Conger
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2004 1:36 PM
Curator Clement E. Conger Dies at 91;
Beautified Nation's Diplomatic Spaces
By Adam Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 12, 2004; Page B04
Clement E. Conger, 91, the State Department curator who transformed the "motel
modern" look of its diplomatic reception rooms into a showcase for early American
craftsmanship, died Jan. 11 at a hospital in Delray Beach, Fla. He had pneumonia.
Mr. Conger's career, which married the worlds of diplomacy, politicsand fine arts
was chronicled extensively in print. Seemingly every Chippendale table, every Gilbert
Stuart portrait, every Duncan Phyfe cabinet he obtained became cause for a story.
He raised millions of dollars to refurnish State Department rooms for visiting
dignitaries and then did the same at the White House and Blair House, the
presidential guesthouse.
Although Mr. Conger was long enamored of antiques and fine art, he
was a bit of an anomaly in his high-profile job.
A tall, chatty, energetic Shenandoah Valley native with roots in Colonial Virginia,
he held no college degree in decorative arts, never worked in a museum and had no
scholarly record.
His entry into curating, in the early 1960s, was largely accidental. He was at the State
Department helping coordinate visits by foreign officials when the wife of Secretary
of State Christian A. Herter approached him worriedly about additions that had been
made to the State Department building. She was distressed to see the new hospitality
suite looking so sterile. According to Mr. Conger, she "burst into tears,"
knowing that
she soon had to entertain the Queen of Greece there.
He fixed the problem with three borrowed French paintings and then got to work
forming a committee of wealthy citizens with a healthy interest in history and
antiques.
He sent letters nationwide explaining the benefits of lending beautiful objects to the
State Department: "national pride, family pride and tax deductibility."
On weekends, he visited auction houses and private estates for vintage Americana
while working full time during the week as an assistant to top arms-control officials.
Over the years, he overhauled more than 15 main reception rooms as well as the
Treaty Room suite and the offices of the secretary and deputy secretary of state.
The furnishings are now valued at more than $100 million, said Pat Heflin, his former
assistant.
The Nixons admired his work and invited him to be the White House curator. Curating became
his main job, and he divided his time between the executive
mansion and the State Department.
He raised millions to renovate much of the White House, including the Red, Green
and Blue rooms.
In 1986, first lady Nancy Reagan reportedly dismissed Mr. Conger because of artistic
differences and replaced him with a Reagan friend, White House chief usher Rex
Scouten.
Mr. Conger retired from the State Department in 1992 and then spent two years doing
consulting work at Christie's auction house.
Clement Ellis Conger was born in Harrisonburg, Va., where his father was a doctor. He was
a graduate of Strayer College and attended George Washington University.
Early on, he worked in Washington as an office manager and correspondent for the
Chicago Tribune and office manager for U.S. Rubber Co.
During World War II, he served in the Army and became assistant secretary for the United
States and British combined chiefs of staff.
He joined the State Department after the war and became deputy chief of protocol in the
late 1950s. He helped oversee visits by foreign officials, among them the Shah of
Iran, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, French President Charles de Gaulle and
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
Although he began curatorial work as a volunteer, he attacked the job with vigor.
He earned the nickname "the Grand Inquisitor" for his singular pursuit of
certain
objects.
At a State Department party, he heard about a man in Philadelphia selling a desk
once used by Thomas Jefferson. He rushed that day to meet the owner and
dissuaded him from selling the desk to a museum. Giving it to the State Department,
he explained, would mean that it would be seen by presidents, prime ministers,
kings and queens.
The job also had its foibles. "Marshall Field V's wife didn't like antiques," he
said in
1972, referring to the Chicago newspaper publisher. "But he couldn't stop collecting
them, so he lent them to us. But a funny thing happened. He changed wives, and his
new wife just loves antiques. So the other week, all the antiques he had lent us went
to their home."
Mr. Conger, a member of the Senior Executive Service, was a recipient of the State
Department's Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Service Medal.
In 1992, Winterthur, the Delaware-based museum of American decorative arts, gave
him the Henry Francis DuPont Award for distinguished contribution to the American
arts.
He was a former chairman of the Virginia Trust for Historic Preservation and a
former vestryman and senior warden at Episcopal Christ Church in Alexandria.
A longtime Alexandria resident, he lived briefly in Arlington before moving to
Delray Beach in 2002.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Lianne Hopkins Conger of Delray Beach;
three children, William Conger of Maurertown, Va., Jay Conger of Manhattan Beach,
Calif., and Shelley Conger of Sherman Oaks, Calif.; and two grandchildren.
© 2004 The Washington Post Company
Correction: The obituary for Clement E. Conger that ran Jan. 12 incorrectly reported
the nickname he received. It was the "Grand Acquisitor."
122904 - APPRECIATION
Clement Conger,
Furnishing History
By Patricia Dane Rogers
Special to The
Washington Post
Thursday, January 15,
2004; Page H01
A visit to Clement
Conger's Georgian-style home on Alexandria's
Mansion Drive revealed
a lot about the man who led a lifelong
crusade to elevate the
Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the State
Department, the White
House and Blair House to a level of elegance
and authenticity that
would do them proud.
"After all,"
he told me in a 1975 interview for Architectural
Digest, "kings,
queens and prime ministers should see something
beside planes and
airports when they come to Washington."
His own formal living
room -- Oriental rug, grand piano crowded with
photographs and
invitations, a tall Chippendale-style tea table and
a leggy blue damask
camel-back sofa -- clearly reflected the period
look this purist sought
for those grander venues: porcelain owned by
the Washingtons and Mr.
Jefferson (as Conger inevitably referred to
him); silver made by
Paul Revere; chairs once owned by Francis Scott
Key. All were pieces
that bespoke grace, beauty and the nation's
history.
His own home also held
a clue to his enduring disapproval when
history was ignored,
such as the wall-to-wall carpet installed in
the private quarters of
the White House during the Reagan years. The
yellow Oval Room on the
second floor, he said, was "an extremely
beautiful room,"
decorated by Jacqueline Kennedy with fine French
antiques, which the
Nixons augmented with "even finer furnishings"
appropriate to the
Federal era.
"Mrs. Reagan and
her decorator, Ted Graber -- who knew nothing about
American period houses
-- turned the Yellow Room and most of the
second floor into
'California rooms,' " Conger wrote to me in 1992.
"They replaced
many antiques with 20th-century overstuffed sofas,
which are not correct
for the room, and, as everybody knows, are too
low and hard to get out
of."
Conger, who died Sunday
in Florida at age 91, began his work to
transform the State
Department's motel-modern Diplomatic Reception
Rooms during the
Kennedy administration, and served as curator there
until 1992. His work
drew the attention of the Nixons, who tapped
him to add the White
House curatorship to his duties in 1970. He
served in that capacity
until 1986, when the Reagans replaced him,
rather unceremoniously,
with chief usher Rex Scouten. From 1970 to
1992, he was also
curator of Blair House, the president's guest
house, and worked with
then-chief of protocol Selwa "Lucky"
Roosevelt to totally
refurbish it.
Once dubbed the
"Grand Acquisitor" by the Wall Street Journal,
Conger was legendary
for his ability to ferret out, bargain for and
solicit museum-quality
18th- and early-19th-century cabinetry,
porcelain, rugs,
paintings and silver that now adorn the Diplomatic
Reception Rooms as well
as the offices of the Secretary of State --
a collection of nearly
5,000 pieces currently valued at more than
$100 million.
His work also gave him
a unique perch from which to watch the parade
of first families who
made their home in the White House. "I
probably have more of a
bird's-eye view of what can happen with
changes of
administration than anyone," he said in an interview with
me seven years after
he'd left the White House.
He particularly admired
Pat Nixon, "who really completed what Mrs.
Kennedy started at the
White House in the public rooms as well as
the private
quarters." According to Conger, he and the first lady
shared a fondness for
coconut cake with lemon filling as well as
fine antiques.
"She would give a birthday lunch for me and I would
give one for her and we
always had this cake."
He recalled how his
work at the State Department first caught her
husband's eye.
"President Nixon had seen what I had done there," he
said in one of our many
conversations over the years. "One day, I
bumped into him in the
lobby and he said, 'Would you take Pat up to
the eighth floor and
show her the Diplomatic Reception Rooms?' Then
he joined us and we
went through in a flash and the president turned
to her and said 'What
did I tell you? This place looks better than
the White House.' And
that's how I got to shuttle back and forth
between the White House
and the State Department for the next 16
years."
He admired the Fords
and Carters as well and had high praise for the
senior Bushes.
"They and their decorator, Mark Hampton, returned
some of the antiques
the Reagans had banished."
The arrival of the
Clintons -- and more specifically their cat Socks
-- gave him cause for
concern, which he expressed when I interviewed
him about changes they
might make to the White House. "Tell me," he
asked, "does
Chelsea's cat have claws? It does? Uh-oh. Amy Carter's
cat scratched the legs
of tables and chairs upstairs and down . . .
. The danger that
Chelsea's cat could do to chairs and settees worth
tens and in some cases
hundreds of thousands of dollars is
irretrievable."
At State, his office
was modest and crowded, filled with rolled-up
rugs, tall case clocks,
Pembroke tables and "always piles and piles
of papers," said
Gail F. Serfaty, Conger's longtime deputy curator
and, as director of the
Diplomatic Reception Rooms and curator of
Blair House since '95,
his successor. He had no formal training in
antiques; in fact, he
once described himself as an "advanced
amateur." But he
lectured coast to coast, brought in specialists and
worked with classically
inclined architects such as Edward Vason
Jones of Albany, Ga.,
and Allan Greenberg of Washington, to create
historically correct
settings, especially at State, for the
furnishings he
acquired.
"He was a
perfectionist. The extraordinary thing was not only his
enthusiasm but his
sense that it was possible to do the impossible,"
said Serfaty. "The
State Department rooms were ugly and sterile, but
he had the
self-confidence to make things happen. He never claimed
to be an expert
himself, but he went to experts like Berry Tracy,
curator of American
Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, great dealers like
Harold Sack and great collectors. His
optimism was
extraordinary. He was able to bring out in people a
sense of national
pride." One of his greatest coups, she said, was
"to acquire the
Gilbert Stuart portrait of John Jay at auction and,
of course, the Treaty
of Paris desk, the desk on which the final
Treaty of Paris was
signed in 1783, ending the American Revolution."
In the early years,
Serfaty, Conger and Pat Heflin -- then his
personal secretary and
now manager of development under Serfaty --
spent most weekends
working on the State Department Americana
project.
"He could be
intimidating," Heflin recalls. "He had been a court
stenographer, took
impeccable shorthand, and he'd come out of
meetings and dictate
without a pause. He also had this old
rat-a-tat-tat manual
typewriter, and he'd always be banging out
drafts."
On many of those
weekends, said Serfaty, "we would also have small
luncheons for people
with great collections and he would ask them
what they thought the
rooms needed." He reasoned correctly, she
says, "that most
collectors overcollect, so he often tapped into
their patriotic and
family pride and they were thrilled to give.
What I respected
most," she said, "was his own love for the project.
At State, all the
furnishings were loaned or donated." He was proud
that the rooms were
open to the public, and that they hadn't cost
taxpayers a cent.
As a fellow resident of
Alexandria, I sometimes ran into Conger in
less than formal
circumstances. At the neighborhood Safeway one day
a few years back, I
noticed he was limping; he told me that too many
years of walking on
marble floors at State and the White House had
hurt his feet. Another
time, I was surprised to realize that the
tall, somehow familiar
man climbing out of the swimming pool at the
Army Navy Country Club
was none other than Conger; I had never seen
him in anything but a
dark blue suit and striped tie.
In a conversation after
his death this week, Serfaty said she and
Conger had stayed in
touch. "We had a long chat on Christmas Eve,"
she said. He was
planning to attend the "Becoming a Nation:
Americana From the
Diplomatic Reception Rooms," the traveling
exhibit she organized
and that is now in Palm Beach. "But then we
learned that he had
developed pneumonia and realized he wasn't going
to make it. He always
considered us a team," she said. "We were
family."
© 2004 The Washington Post Company
121204 from Lois Patrick Loispatric@aol.com
an obituary via email that reads . . .
"Funeral services for Vivian Conger
Daniel, 88, of North Richland Hills were held Friday, June 28, 2002 at the Lunn
Funeral Home Chapel with Scotte Clark officiating.
"Interment was in the Reynolds
Cemetery under the direction of Lunn Funeral Home.
"Mrs. Daniel was born March 1,
1914, in Saragosa to the late Ephraim Barnett and Ada (Harbert) Conger. She died Tuesday,
June 25, 2002, in Hurst.
"She and Richard Leo
Daniel were married April 4, 1931 in Waurika, Okla. She was a homemaker and a member of
First Christian Church. She was active in the Girl Scouts in Kermit and worked for Wackers
Department Store in Kermit and Hobbs, N.M. for 10 years.
"Survivors include her
husband Richard Leo Daniel of North Richland Hills; one son, Forrest Daniel and his wife,
Jean, of Moore, Okla; two daughters, Rita Bach and Louis Patrick and her husband, Doyle,
all of Hurst; eight grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two
great-great-grandchildren."
Postscript: North Richland Hills, where Vivian
Conger lived, is in Tarrant County, the state of Texas. Reynolds Cemetery is close to the
city of Olney, Texas in Wise County, about 150 miles east of Fort Worth, Texas. -- Thanks
to Dick Henthorn and Lois Patrick for recent corrections and additional information.
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