FRANK R. COLEMAN
Born in Hallettsville, Lavaca County, Texas, May 30, 1895. Son of Thomas Blowett Coleman and Martha Jane Simpson Coleman. Grandson of William Ragsdale Coleman and Sarah Newport Head Coleman. Great grandson of Wiley Roe Coleman and Sarah Ragsdale Coleman. Graduated from Hallettsville High School. B.S. in electrical engineering, Texas A & M College, 1916. Served two years and two months in World War I as First Lieutenant, Supply Officer and Paymaster, 343 Machine Gun Battalion, 90th Division. Served in the Army of Occupation in Germany in the Fourth Army Corps. Married Mallie Ada Little, January 20, 1920, Dallas, Texas. Two children, Ritha Marie, now Mrs. Frank W. Butler, and Ralph Marion, who married Margaret Jeanine Springer. Employed by the City of Dallas in City Building Inspector's Office for over twenty-six years prior to retirement. Baptist, deacon of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. Active in Church and Boy Scout work. Past president of the Coleman-Feaster-Mobley Family Association of Feasterville, South Carolina.
