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  REFN: 3055
  THE PARIS NEWS, Thu., Oct. 17, 1996, p.5A. '(Picture) Mrs. Harold ( Sarah
  Elizabeth) Reeder, affectionately known as 'Me-Me' to her many
  grandc hildren and great-grandchildren, died at 2:45 p.m. Wednesday Oct.
  16, at Heri tage Care Center. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday,
  Oct. 18, in the chapel of Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home with the Rev. Doug
  Miller officiating. B urial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will
  receive friends from 7-8 p.m Friday at the funeral home. Mrs. Reeder was
  born Nov 10, 1901, in Petty, a daughter of Arthur Tyson and Sara
  Elizabeth Mayhew Swearingen. She had bee n a resident of Paris for 75
  years. She attended public schools in Petty and Honey Grove, graduating
  as salutation of her class, and North Texas Normal Co llege in Denton
  where she obtained a teaching certificate. She taught at Rock Hill School
  in the White Rock community. She was a faithful member of First United
  Methodist Church where she was a member of the New Era Sunday School
  Class. She was a member and past president of United Methodist Women, a
  memb er of the Naioth Bible Club, the McKinney Circle, and the XYZs. She
  also had been involved in local study clubs and other school and
  community organizatio ns in the Paris area. She was a devoted mother and
  friend to those who surviv e: a son, Bill Reeder and his wife Anita of
  Carrollton; five daughters, Clara Story Nance and husband Richard of
  Paris, Helen Usher of McKinney, Ruth Abbe tt and husband Luke of Dallas,
  Jeanne Blackburn and husband Ira of Dallas, Ma rilyn Nall and husband Van
  of McKinney; 15 grandchildren; 25 great-grand-chil dren; one
  great-great-grandchild; a sister, Vivian Shrum of Greenville, and
  numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be grandsons, Steven
  Storey, M ike Blackburn, Van Nall, Hal Nall, Joe Nall and Bill Usher.' *On
  the same sto ne with Harold S. Reeder. Tombstone is inscribed, 'Elizabeth
  S. Reeder.'

Details of Sarah Elizabeth's family with Harold Sylvester Reeder