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LINDALE - Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Hilburn, age 72, of Lindale, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in the Caudle-Rutledge Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Byron Howard and the Rev. Gary Dinger officiating. Interment will follow in the Lindale City Cemetery with services under the direction of Cau-dle-Rutledge Funeral Directors in Lindale. Mrs. Hilburn died Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, in a Tyler hospice center. She was born in Rockport on Dec. 12, 1936, the daughter of James Melburn and Pinkie Parlee Duty Furr, and was a longtime resident of Lindale. Mrs. Hilburn was a member of the Central Baptist Church in Lindale and was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, J.D. Hilburn in 2004; two brothers, Gerald Furr and James Emory Furr; and four sisters, Louise Provan, Zoe Yocum, Joy England and Iowene Harmon. Mrs. Hilburn is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jay and Andrea Hilburn of Lindale; granddaughter, Katelyn Hilburn of Lindale; two sisters, Lula Hilton of Winnsboro and Wanda Wilson of Lindale; two brothers, Richard Furr of Lindale and Don Furr of Greenock, Scotland; and by several nieces and nephews. Serving as pallbearers will be Lex Yarber, Dan England, Phillip Provan, Richard England, Ron Owens and Tommy Wilson. The family will receive friends from 6to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home in Lindale.
Tyler Morning Telegraph, Tyler, Texas, Octobr 26, 2009