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Dallas
Morning News
April 28, 1949
p. 22, sec. 2
Special to The News
DENTON, Texas, April 27.—Mrs. J. W. Koons of Sanger died in a Denton hospital Wednesday after a month's illness. She would have been seventy-four Saturday.
Mrs. Koons was born at Weiner, the daughter of O. W. Alexander and Nancy Wilson Alexander. Her father was a member of Terry's Texas Rangers during the Civil War.
She moved with her parents to Wellington and become principal of the Pearl School at the age of sixteen. She was married in Wellington on June 11, 1893, to James William Koons, the first county attorney of Worthington County.
Funeral services will be held at the Sanger Methodist Church Thursday at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in the Sanger Cemetery.
Survivors include her daughter, Mrs. Hugh S. Porter of Sanger; two sons, Walter A. Koons of Fort Worth and John M. Koons of Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. John W. Alexander and Miss Nettie Alexander, and a brother, John Alexander, all of Wellington.
Article provided by Bill Page.