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Canton Herald – May 19, 1960: 

Russell and Maurice Eubank, owners of the Eubank Funeral Home in Canton, announced the open house of their new funeral home located next to peaceful Haven of Memories Cemetery on Highway 64.

Open house will be held Saturday, May 21, from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. and Sunday, May 22, from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. Mr. and Ms. Eubanks extend a personal invitation to everyone to inspect one of the most modern and practical funeral homes in Texas.  “Your attendance at the open house will be considered a personal complement to us,” Mr. Eubanks stated. The new funeral home and chapel contains 7000 ft. of floor space and is styled in modern architecture. The new chapel seeks 500.

Funeral services for Jimmy Don Rose, 10-year-old son of Henry Clarence Charles Bardwell, and Mrs. Annie Mae Myers Richardson, were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Calvary Baptist Church in Brown’s borough. Interment was in the Primrose Cemetery under the direction of Eubank funeral home.

Jimmy Dawn, a fourth grade student at Richardson passed away in a Dallas hospital Sunday. He was born Aug. 26, 1949 at Brown’s borough.

W. Barnes died in a fourth hospital Sunday, May 9 at 9 a.m. He was the son of late of the late Jesse and Martha Barnes of Blue Springs Community, being born Nov. 3, 1892 in Van Zandt County, being 67 years of age at the time of his death. He was educated in the public school and grew to manhood near Canton. He was married to Carlene Starr on August 1911 in this county. To this union nine children were born seven of whom survive.

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