Dateline: December 4, 2003
McCauley
Funeral
services for John Morgan McCauley, age 87, were held at 10:00 a.m. on
Monday, December 1, 2003, in the Clarendon Church of Christ with Ron
Suiter of Canyon, officiating. Masonic graveside services were held at
2:00 p.m. in River View Cemetery in Seymour under the direction of
Robertson Funeral Directors, Inc., of Clarendon.
Mr.
McCauley died Wednesday, November 26, 2003, in Amarillo.
He was born January 11, 1916, in Throckmorton, Texas, and was a
resident of Howardwick for ten years before moving to Amarillo seven years
ago. He married Willie
Frances Abston on September 11, 1986, in Howardwick.
He had owned a dry cleaning and tailor business in the 1940s and
1950s, had worked in road construction, and was an independent distributor
for the Dr Pepper Company before his retirement.
He was a lifetime member of the Memphis Masonic
Lodge and a former long time member of the Simmons-Noel American Legion
Post in Memphis. He was a US
Navy Veteran of World War II and a member of the Bell Avenue Church of
Christ in Amarillo.
He
was preceded in death by a son, Nicholas Philip McCauley, in 1985; by a
sister, Elfleta McCauley, and by a brother, Roy Den McCauley.