Wade E. Darrow Obit

Miller Grove Cemetery

Hopkins Co. Cemeteries of Tx

Submitted by Elaine Nall Bay


Wade Darrow (Sulphur Springs News Telegram, 1982)

Wade E. Darrow, 65, Route 1, Cumby of the Miller Grove community, died at 7:20 a.m. Friday in Memorial Hospital.

He was born May 11, 1917 in Miller Grove, son of John D. and Willie Emma Johnson Darrow. He was a carpenter.

He married Lela Waskom Sept. 19, 1937 in Campbell. She survives. Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Betty Phillips of Sulphur Springs; three sons, Ronny and Johnny Darrow both of Sulphur Springs, and Brett Darrow of Miller Grove; seven grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Lera Ferguson and Mrs. Lorene Waskom, both of Miller Grove, and a brother, Boyd Darrow of Route 1, Brashear.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Miller Grove United Methodist Church, where he was a member, with the Rev. Robert Ridley and the Rev. Jimmy Tarrant officiating. Burial will be in Miller Grove Cemetery with nephews serving as pallbearers.

Tapp Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.