Marietta Curtis

Services for Marietta Curtis, 89, will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday, April 26, 2007 in the Crosier-Pearson Cleburne Chapel. Private interment will be in Rosehill Cemetery.
Mrs. Curtis died April 18, 2007.
A Cleburne native, she was the daughter of John F. and Eleanor Wimberly Buckner. Her father, who was Cleburne's first city engineer, owned a contracting business that constructed roads and bridges throughout Texas. Her mother's people settled in Cleburne in the 1850's; her grandmother, Sarah Moody Wimberly, was the daughter of early-day Johnson County sheriff John W. Moody.
Mrs. Curtis graduated from Cleburne High School in 1934 and from Baylor University in 1938. On December 2, 1939, she married Dr. James E. Curtis, a Cleburne dentist, who preceded her in death. Theirs was the last wedding performed in the old First Baptist Church sanctuary before it was replaced by the present building. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include a brother, John H. Buckner of San Antonio, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by three brothers, Irwin, Arthur and Dan Buckner.

Service

Crosier-Pearson Cleburne
512 North Ridgeway Dr.
Cleburne, TX 76033
Thursday
11:00 a.m.
Map to Service Location

Interment

Rosehill Cemetery
FM 4 and FM 3136
cleburne , tx 76031
Map to Interment Location