Coleman Chronicle & DV, December 2, 1997 ~ Page 6-A
Ina May Pricer, 90
Ina May Pricer, age 90, long-time Coleman and Brown County resident, died
Saturday, November 29, 1997 at Providence Hospital in Waco.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday (Dec. 1) at Stevens Funeral Home Chapel
with Dr. Charles Sheffield officiating. Burial followed at Coleman Cemetery,
under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home.
Ina May Pricer was born May 10, 1907 in Holder, Brown County, Texas, the daughter
of the late Josiah Juan Smith and Fannie Hassentine Gammon Smith. She grew
up in Brown County and attended school at Holder and recieved a teaching certificate
from Daniel Baker College (now Howard Payne University). On February 9, 1940, she
Joe Bailey Pricer in Coleman and he preceded her in death on February 7, 1989.
She taught school for 13 years at Comal, New Central, Anderson, Whon, Indian Creek,
Williams and Scranton. She live in the Anderson community in Coleman County and
moved to Burkett in 1949 and to Bangs in 1971. In 1990, she moved to Crawford.
In later years, Mrs. Pricer was cashier at Piggly Wiggly in Santa Anna and
worked at nursing homes in Coleman and Bangs. She was a past member of the
Holder Quilting Club and the Home Demonstration Club. Mrs. Pricer was active
in church where she was a song leader and taught Sunday School. She was a member
of Canaan Baptist Church in Crawford.
Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Sandra and Walter Bruton of
Coleman; one son and daughter-in-law, John and Carolyn Pricer of Crawford;
three grandchildren, Len (and wife Tracy) Clawson of Coleman, Tessa (and
husband Michael) Gray of Coleman and Johnny (and wife Jeanene) Pricer
of Fisk; four step-grandchildren, Charles Bruton, Walter Bruton, Jr.,
Lawrence Bruton and Howard Bruton; four great-grandchildren; 10 step-great-
grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one granddaugther, Johna Pricer
in 1981 and one great-grandson, Christopher Gray in 1986.
Pallbearers were Len Clawson, Michael Gray, Johnny Pricer, William R. Black,
Jerome Smith, Bobby Hart, Calud Hart, and Tommy Hart.
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