Lila Edith O'Neal Mitchell
Breckenridge American Newspaper – Date unknown
Lila Edith Mitchell, 86, died at 6:10 p.m. Saturday, May 28, 1988 in Villa Haven
Nursing Home.
Services were at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, 1988, at First Baptist Church with the
Rev. Charles West, pastor of Bethany Baptist Church, officiating, assisted by
the Rev. Kevin Mitchell, a grandson and associate pastor of Sunnyside Baptist
church in Wichita Falls.
Burial was in the Evergreen Cemetery in Ranger, directed by Morehart Mortuary.
Born Lila Edith O’Neal, Nov. 21, 1901, in Bell County, she attended schools in
Strawn and graduated from Strawn High School.
She married Joseph Hubert Mitchell, Dec. 26, 1920, in Gordon.
She had been a resident of Breckenridge since 1955.
She was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church, the Woman’s Forum and
the Woman’s Club.
Survivors include her husband of Breckenridge; a son, Glen Mitchell of Iowa
Park; a daughter, Huberta Ross of Brownwood; a sister-in-law, Lula O’Neal of
Austin; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in
death by her parents and one brother.
Pallbearers were Leo Draper, T.S. Fuller, C.J. Lethcoe, B.B. Phillips, Sam
Warford and Glenn Willingham.
Honorary pallbearers were members of the Roughneck Bible Class of First Baptist
Church.
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