CA764

Obituary of Katie Lou Avis Weeks
(C. Avis Catalog entry #764)

Mrs. Fred Weeks Claimed By Death
<note in margin says "May 1, 1969>

Services for Mrs. Fred Weeks, member of a pioneer Wichita Falls family who died Wednesday morning in Tyler, Tex., will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Lloyd James Funeral Home there.

Officiating will be the Rev. T. Hartley Hall, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Tyler.  Entombment will be in Dallas' Hillcrest Mausoleum at 5 p.m. Thursday.

A native Wichitan, Mrs. Weeks was the former Katie Lou Avis.  She was married to Fred Weeks, a prominent attorney and oilman here, in 1909, shortly after his graduation from Yale University.  During the Burkburnett oil boom, her husband's law offices occupied the entire 11th floor of the Staley Building and included seven lawyers on its staff.

The Weeks family home, which for several years was occupied by home offices of American Trust Life Insurance Co., once was one of the showplaces of Wichita Falls.  It now houses Region IX Education Services Center.

Mrs. Weeks and her husband moved to Tyler in 1931.  She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church there and had been a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Wichita Falls.

The Weeks in 1927 gave Wichita Falls the 266 acres of land that is now Weeks Park.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Mrs. Billy Bridwell of Tyler; two sisters, Mrs. Lillian Avis Baum and Mrs. Ruby Dunkelberg, both of Wichita Falls; a brother, Jack Avis of Austin; and three grandchildren.

Three nephews from Wichita Falls will be among pallbearers, Ralph Dunkelberg, Clint B. Wood and J. D. Avis.