Goldie Wells Millsap
Submitted by Gena Forsyth
To the Hopkins Co. Cemeteries of TX

Goldie Wells Millsap, 94
Funeral services for Goldie Wells Millsap of Brashear were held Friday, June 16, at Tapp Funeral Home Chapel in Sulphur Springs. Rev. David Burns and Rev. Robert Burns II officiated. Interment followed in the Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Cumby, with Blake Smith, Barry Smith, Bart Millsap, Randy Millsap, Michael Phillips and Steve Tips serving as pallbearers. Millsap died at her residence on Wednesday, June 14. Millsap was born in Como on Sept. 20, 1905, the daughter of Jay and Ellen Byrd. She married Albert Q. Millsap on May 21, 1921, and they resided in Brashear. She was preceded in death by her husband of 72 years on June 10, 1993. A long time resident of Brashear, she was a homemaker and devoted her life to caring for her family. She was a wonderful mother and grandmother. She was a Christian and member of the Brashear Baptist Church. Millsap is survived by five children, Junior Millsap of Cumby, Weldon Millsap of Brashear, Mary Smith of Brashear, Margaret Ragan of Miller Grove and Gertrude Brand of Brashear. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren. In addition to Mr. Millsap, she was also preceded in death by two sisters, one daughter and one great-grandchild. Memorials may be made to Hopkins County, Hospice or Cypress Basin Hospice.