Weldon Millsap
Obit submitted by Gena Forsyth
To the Hopkins Co. Cemeteries of TX
Weldon Millsap
Funeral services for Weldon Millsap, 75, of Brashear will beheld at 2 p.m. Friday, Dec. 13, iii Murray-Orwosky Funeral Chapel with the Revs. Michael Coker and Bob Phillips officiating.
Interment will follow in Pleasant Grove Cemetery with Dillon Millsap, Joshua Miller, Jodie Grubb, Harlon Willy, Charles Baggett, Raymond Price, T.J. Miller and Ray Rogers serving as pall bearers. Honorary pallbearers will be John Duncan Jr., T.L. Edwards, David Horn, Ray Wilemon, Steve Tipps, Bart Millsap and Joe Darden.
Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 12, at Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.
Mr. Millsap died at 1:05 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital.
He was born on Dec. 24, 1926, in Brashear to Albert and Goldie Wells Byrd Millsap He married Peggy Jane Pierce in Miller Grove on Aug. 18, 1951. She survives.
Mr. Millsap was retired from Ward Manufacturing in Greenville. He was a member of Rockdale Baptist Church. He served in the Army during World War I
Other survivors include one son, Randy Millsap of Sulphur Springs; three daughters, Donna Neal of Canton, and Rhonda Miller and Bonnie Garrett, both of Sulphur Springs; one brother Junior Millsap of Cumby; three sisters, Gertrude Brand and Mary Smith, both of Brashear, and Margaret Reagan of Cumby; 11 grandchildren, Jason Millsap, Emily Nichols, Dillon Millsap, Mollie Millsap, Tracy Angeles, Melanie Dard en, Michael Morgan, Joshua Miller, Ginger Garrett, Paul Garrett Jr. and Lindsey Collett; and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by one sister, Louise Millsap; and one granddaughter.