| Alice Perrin |
| My great-aunt |
| Alice was born on the family farm in Franklin County, Texas. She married Noah Robert Koonce on November 5, 1911 in Franklin County. They had 5 children: Glen, Lerah, William Ethel, Wilburn, and Louise. Alice is buried at Sulphur Springs City Cemetery next to her father and step-mother and near her half-sister, Clemmie Lee Sims. |
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| Alice and Noah at the Perrin family reunion in 1936. |
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| KOONCE,William Ethel
William E.Koonce,84,of Woodson,died Saturday,Oct.26,2002,at a Wichita Falls hospital.Graveside services were held at 2p.m.Tuesday at the Woodson Cemetery,with the Rev.Charles O.Fisher officiating,directed by Melton-Kitchens Funeral Home. He was born Oct.27,1917,in Wanette,Okla., to NOAH ROBERT and ALICE PERRIN KOONCE. He was a driller,a Methodist and a U.S.Army veteran of World War II. He was a lifetime member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and was an avid fisherman and gardener. He was preceded in death by one sister and one brother. |
| Below is William's obituary. We found it on the Throckmorton County, Texas genweb site. |
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| Noah, Alice, Glenn, Ethel, and Lerah in Perrin family picture, 1918. |
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| William Ethel Koonce with cousins Dorothy and Juanita Wilcox, Sasakwa, Oklahoma. |
| Wilburn Koonce with cousin Lorene Wilcox |
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| Wilburn Koonce is buried at Blanchard Cemetery, Blanchard, Oklahoma. |
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| Noah is buried in Loftin Cemetery, Smith County, Texas. He was born October 2, 1886, Mount Vernon, Franklin County, Texas. He died March 1, 1979 in Cherokee County, Texas. In the 1920 and 1930 census, Noah was living in Seminole County, Oklahoma with his family. In 1930 he was listed as the Deputy Sheriff of Seminole County. |
| Glenn Koonce was born September 30, 1912 in Texas. He married Joan Granbey April 22, 1975 in Freestone County, Texas. His first wife's name was Idell. He died April 28, 1986 Smith County. Lerah Koonce was born around 1914 in Texas and died around 1928 in Oklahoma. |
| Louise Koonce was born February 2, 1924 in Oklahoma. She married Ollie Everett Bragg. They had Alice, Linda, Dodie, and Noah. In 1977 she married Robert Lovell. Below is her obituary. GRAHAM - Louise Bragg Lovell, 77, of Possum Kingdom Lake died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001, in Graham. Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Pioneer Cemetery with the Rev. Joe Finfrock, pastor, Oak Street Baptist Church, Graham, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Morrison Funeral Home. Mrs. Lovell was retired from Texas Instruments in Dallas. Survivors include three daughters, Alice Perry of Dallas, Linda Isham of Fort Belknap, Texas, and Dodie Tidwell of Mesquite, Texas; a son, Noah Bragg of Possum Kingdom Lake; two brothers, Ethel Koonce of Woodson, Texas, and Wilburn Koonce of Blanchard, Texas; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. |