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NOTE: There are 2 articles for this obit. (see below)

NOTE: One says M. T. Petteway and the other obit says M. I….don't know which is right.

PETTEWAY, M. I.                  April 3, 1931   

    Surnames: PETTEWAY, ERSKINE, MELCER   

M. I. Petteway, age 57, died in Marlin at 5:20 o'clock this morning. He was brought here from his home at Stranger several days ago following a stoke of paralysis.

A native of Texas, deceased was born and reared in the Petteway community of Robertson county, but had resided in Falls county for upwards of a score of years, having spent most of this time in the Stranger community. He was engaged in farming pursits and was a member of the Baptist church.

Surviving deceased are his wife, five sons, Ernest, Mike, and John, of Houston, Morris of Marlin, and Guy Petteway, who lived in Stranger; and three daughters, Mesdames R. F. Erskine of Stranger, C. M. Melcer of Dallas, and Miss Alline Petteway of Marlin.

The funeral was announced for two p. m. Saturday with services at the Stranger church and burial in the Stranger cemetery.

The Daily Democrat Marlin Texas, April 3, 1931, page 2

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Petteway funeral information .... This article was in the paper on a different date:

NOTE: This says M. T. Petteway and the first obit says M. I….don't know which is right.

  Surnames: PETTEWAY, DOLLAHITE   

Funeral services were held at three o'clock this afternoon for M. T. Petteway of Stranger, who died in Marlin Friday following a week illness.

Last rites were conducted at the Stranger Baptist church by Rev. S. D. Dollahite, pastor of the First Baptist church of Marlin. Burial was in the Stranger cemetery.

The Daily Democrat, Marlin Tx, April 6, 1931