H. H. Pearce, Former Publisher, Passes Away
Funeral services for H. [Hubert] H. Pearce, 74, former Dallas publisher and pharmacist and a resident here for thirty-six years, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the chapel of Lamar & Smith Funeral Home, 800 West Jefferson. He died Sunday.
The Rev. Clint Archer will conduct services and burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Pallbeareres will be W. E. Parrish, R. E. Parrish, Ernest Grice, Buddy Bratton, J. L. Raines and George Truitt.
He was born in Grayson County and was taken by his parents to help settle Runnels Count at an early age.
He came to Dallas in 1908 and his first business venture here was in the publishing of the Oak Cliff Tribune, the first Oak Cliff newspaper. Later he returned to pharmacy, which he operated until recently.
A long-time member of the Baptist Church, he was a deacon and Sunday School teacher in the Sunset Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, five daughters, Miss Bess Pearce, Mrs. Annie Byrd Goodwin, Mrs. Pauline Brown and Mrs. Imogene Johnson, all of Dallas, and Mrs. O. A. Richter, San Antonio; two grandchildren, and four sisters, Miss W. L. Hayley, Snyder, Scurry County; Mrs. W. B. Hamilton, Houston; Mrs. Robert McFarland, Winters, Runnels County, and Mrs. Frederick Henry, Dallas.
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Note by Ethel Pearce Hayley - "Passed away Feb. 20 - 1944 - Buried
Feb. 22 - '44. I attended my dear Brother's Funeral and went home to
Tyler, with Holiday and Mamie Ray - went to Lufkin to see Hubert &
family back to Dallas gone 2 weeks."
Submitted by Mary Love Berryman.