Funeral services were held at 10:30 am Monday in the Homer Methodist Church for Mrs. Amanda Calhoun, 71, of Route 1, Lufkin.  She died late Saturday in a local hospital. Rev James E. Harrell and Rev. Lovell officiated at the services and interment was in Fielder's Cemetery.

Mrs. Calhoun was born February 21, 1880 in Arkansas and came to Texas when she was a small child. She was a life-long member of the Methodist Church.  She was married to Benjamin Franklin Calhoun Sr. on 13 Oct 1896 at a marriage age of: 16 years, 8 months, 20 Days.

Survivors include her husband Benjamin Franklin Calhoun Sr. of Lufkin: five daughters, Mrs. Clara Dykes, of Zavalla, Mrs. Cecil Stanley, of Zavalla, Mrs. Ola Goldsberry, of Huntington, and Mrs. Callie Dennis and Mrs. Mary Elllen Williams , both of Lufkin: three sons, Robert Calhoun, and Ben Calhoun Jr., both of Lufkin, and William Pierce Calhoun of the U.S. Air Force stationed in Alaska: one sister, Mrs. Maggie McCarty, of Centrahoma, Oklahoma: twenty one grandchildren; and eighteen great-grandchildren.  

Pallbearers were: James Watson Shoffitt, Robert Lee Deggs, Robert Calhoun Jr. and Morris Edward Goldsberry, all grandsons, Frank Dennis, Zeke Dennis and Eldridge Weaver, Nephews.   

Oakley-Metcalf Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

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Amanda's tombstone has a birth year of 1870, date should be 1880 according to her 1951 Funeral Program from the Homer Methodist Church, which I have at my house.

See the last photo for Amanda. It shows a birth certificate for my father, William Pierce Calhoun. It also shows that she was born in 1880.

Don Calhoun, 7 Apr 2019