Andrew Weems

Andrew Marshall Weems Andrew Marshall Weems, 98, passed away Saturday, March 26, 2005 in Corsicana. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home with Rev. Rebecca Emery and Mr. Otis Dunagan officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday. Pallbearers will be James Sykes, Rex Bower, John Robinson, Bill Dodson, Mike Davis and Ken Whittaker. Honorary pallbearers will be Les Cotten, Don Barron, Lewis Palos, Pete Ellington and members of the Corsicana Emergency Corps. Marshall was born in Chatfield Feb. 6, 1907 to George Walter Weems and Ida May (Marshall) Weems. He had lived in Corsicana since 1910. During the 1940s he worked at the Bluebonnet Ordinance Plant in McGregor, then went into the flooring sanding business. In the 1950s he and his wife owned and operated the Pleas U Candy Factory. They also owned and operated Kiddieland Park. Prior to retirement, he worked at Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home for 33 years. In 1955 and 1956, he served as Corsicana's police and fire commissioner. He was a charter member of the Corsicana Emergency Corps and served in the Corsicana Police Reserves and Navarro County Sheriff's Reserves. He was a member of the St. Luke United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Anita (Miles) Weems and a grandson, Bobby Glenn Cox. He is survived by a son, Chuck and Patsy Weems of Malakoff; three daughters Marsha and Jim Grippe of Edmond, Okla., Jamie Posey of Payne Springs and Nancy Weems of Corsicana; three grandsons, Randy and Karla Cox of Red Oak, Andy and Autumn Cox of Waxahachie and Darrell and Tonya Posey of Payne Springs; four granddaughters, Debbie Cox of Duncanville, Mandy and Roger DeMoss of Bedford, Kimberly and Andy Kight of Owasso, Okla. and Erica Weems of Malakoff; and five great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the Chatfield Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 95, Chatfield, TX 75105, or to the Corsicana Emergency Corps, P.O. Box 353, Corsicana, TX 75151, or St. Luke United Methodist Church, 2308 Bowie Drive, Corsicana, TX 75110. Arrangements by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home. ¦

Andrew Weems

February 6, 1907 - March 26, 2005