Loletta Pierce
Obit submitted by Gena Forsyth
To the Hopkins Co. Cemeteries of TX
Services for Loletta Pierce, 50, Route 2, Cumby, are set for 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, at Tapp Funeral Home with the Rev. Robert Renfro officiating.
Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery near Cumby with Walter Darling, Murry Crumpton, Avon Scott, E.A. Junell, Murry Gessman and A.J. Campbell serving as pallbearers.
Eastern Star services will also be held in the chapel Monday.
Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Mrs. Pierce died at 4:55 p.m. Friday at Citizen's General Hospital in Greenville after an extended illness.
She was born Sept. 25, 1938, in Lamar County, a daughter of Archie L. and Jessie Frierson Hughes. Both survive. She married W.L. Pierce Feb. 27, 1956 in Sulphur Springs. He survives.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Cumby, and Sulphur Springs Chapter No. 718 Order of the Eastern Star, homemaker.
Survivors include her father of Alpine; her mother of Chicota; two sons, Jerry Don Pierce and Terry Allen Pierce, both of Cumby; one daughter Rita Jo Hansford of Cumby; two brothers Billy Gene Hughes of Glendive, Mont., and Robert L. Hughes of Perry Ga., one sister, Carolyn Vanderburg of Dallas; four granchildren; and two great-granchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son, Roy Glenn Pierce in 1977.