Tira News: Grace Vaughn’s 100th Birthday Celebrated With Cake, Lunch, More Than 80 Cards, Vehicle Parade
Jan21

Tira News: Grace Vaughn’s 100th Birthday Celebrated With Cake, Lunch, More Than 80 Cards, Vehicle Parade

By Jan Vaughn, Tira News Correspondent We want to express our sympathy to the family of Mary Beth (Robinson) Moore. A graveside funeral service will be held, under the direction of Delta Funeral Home, at the Tira Cemetery on Friday, January 22, at 2 p.m. Please remember the family in your prayers. Grace Vaughn, sporting her “100 Never Looked So Good” shirt, from her granddaughter Crystal and with cake, on her 100th...

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Leveta (Chapman) Watson
Dec30

Leveta (Chapman) Watson

Graveside service for Leveta (Chapman) Watson, age 97, of Mesquite will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 at Tira Cemetery with Tim Alhen officiating. There will be no formal visitation. Mrs. Watson passed away on Monday, December 28, 2020 at Dallas Regional MedicalCenter. Leveta was born on April 27, 1923 in Tira, TX to John Nelson and Nora Bell (Henderson) Chapman. She married William Troy Watson on April 27, 1941...

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Quarterly Tira City Council Meeting Slated Sept. 14
Aug20

Quarterly Tira City Council Meeting Slated Sept. 14

Tira News For Aug. 20, 2020 By Jan Vaughn The next quarterly Tira City Council meeting will be held on Monday, Sept. 14, due to Labor Day falling on the regularly scheduled first Monday meeting date. We want to express our sympathy to the family of Troy Watson of Edgewood. He was the son of Leveta (Chapman) Watson and the late William Troy Watson. A private graveside service was held at the Tira Cemetery on Tuesday, Aug. 18. Please be...

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Bro. Troy Watson
Aug15

Bro. Troy Watson

Private graveside service for Bro. Troy Watson, age 65, of Edgewood, Texas will be held at Tira Cemetery with Bro. Charlie Gowin and Bro. Benny Craft officiating. There will be no formal visitation. Bro. Watson passed away on Thursday, August 13, 2020, at Christus Mother Frances, Tyler, Texas. Troy Lynn was born on November 22, 1954, in Sulphur Springs, Texas, to William Troy and Leveta (Chapman) Watson. He married Maxine...

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