CA240

Obituary of Minnie Ola Bush Avis
(C. Avis Catalog entry #240)


<This article is the total contents of a file on Mrs. J. D. Avis at the Barker Texas History Center and the Univ. of Texas at Austin>

Wichita Daily Times, June 28, 1952

Mrs. J. D. Avis Rites Will Be Sunday

Funeral services for Mrs. J. D. Avis, 87, 1318 Tenth, a resident of Wichita County for 67 years, will be held Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the Hampton-Vaughan-Merkle Funeral Home chapel.

Dr. Earle W. Crawford, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of which she was a member, will officiate. 

Active pallbearers will be J. D. Avis III, Clint Bailey Wood, Jake Avis Jr., Billy McCutchen of Corpus Christi, Marvin L. McCulloch, W. F. Bridewell of Tyler, W. U. McCutchen of Houston and Blair Baker.

Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery.

Mr. and Mrs. Avis moved to Wichita Falls shortly after their marriage in 1885.  Mrs. Avis, the former Minnie Ollie Bush, came to Texas from Virginia as a child. 

Her husband was a freighter, Indian fighter, cattle dealer and a leading business man.  He served in the state legislature for a number of years.

They entered business in Wichita Falls in 1891, when he became proprietor of a grocery establishment.  He later sold the grocery store and established the Avis Hardware Company in 1909.  He died in 1935.

Survivors are the three sons, Dave Avis and Piner Avis of Wichita Falls and Jake Avis, Austin; three daughters, Mrs. Lillian Baum and Mrs. James B. Baker of Wichita Falls, and Mrs. W. F. Weeks of Tyler; eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

The family has requested that no flowers be sent.