Submitted by

Theresa Carhart

Bryan-College Station Eagle

Bryan, Texas

March 15, 2001

John Earl ‘Father’ Mack
June 29, 1920 — March 8, 2001

MARLIN, Texas — Services for John Earl “Father” Mack, 80, of Hearne are set for noon Saturday at Old Elam Missionary Baptist Church in Hearne.

The Rev. Walter Ward of Independent Missionary Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will be in Greater Riverside Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Friday at Paul Funeral Home in Marlin and from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday and from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the church.

Mr. Mack died Thursday in Falls Community Hospital in Marlin.

He was a lifelong resident of Hearne and was retired as a self-employed carpenter. He also worked for Citizens Ice Co. and Hearne Steel. He was a member of Independent Missionary Baptist Church, where he was a deacon, assistant superintendent of Sunday school and secretary of the Brotherhood. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II as a technician 5th grade of the 402nd Quartermaster Truck Company in Europe. He received numerous campaign medals and awards.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Ella Mae Mack.

Survivors include two sons and a daughter-in-law, Raymond Earl and Maria Mack of Austin and Glenn Arthur Mack of Hearne; a daughter and son-in-law, Evelyn Bernice and Horace Edwards “Bud” Chappel of Hearne; a brother and sister-in-law, the Rev. O.W. and Vina Ella Mack of Hearne; a sister, Iris Elaine Hamilton of Houston; his mother-in-law, Myrtle Lee Thomas of Hearne; six sisters-in-law, Catherine Mack and Doris Faye Williams, both of Hearne, Jennie V. Thomas, Madeline Jackson and Erma Lee Richmond, all of Houston, and Zelma Payne of Dallas; three brothers-in-law, C.S.M. Elvis Thomas of Copperas Cove, Jimmie Dee Williams of Hearne and the Rev. Griffin Jackson of Houston; an uncle; and two aunts.