"Reese D. Wade - Funeral services for Reese D. Wade, 72, longtime Beeville attorney, are scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today in First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Don Cureton, minister of the church, willofficiate. Interment will be in Beeville Memorial Park, with Jon Newton, Kinkler Handly, William B. Moser, Jack Chesnut, J. B. Vanhooser, Marion Young, L. D. Hunter and Capt. Robert Ferguson serving as pallbearers. Mr. Wade died at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in Memorial Hospital, following a sudden illness. He had been a resident of Beeville since 1935. The son of Lula (Michie) and Henry Manasco Wade, Mr. Wade was born Aug. 22, 1902, in Rockwall, Texas. He was a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and was admitted to the bar in 1926. He served as county attorney in Rockwall County from 1927 to 1935, when he moved here. Mr. Wade was married to Dorothy Dumas in Rockwall on June 23, 1929. He was a member of the State Bar of Texas and Phi Alpha Delta, legal fraternity. He was a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Wade of Beeville; three sisters, Mrs. Carrie O'Briant of Amarillo, Mrs. Andy Armistead of Corsicana and Mrs. C. L. Cronwell of Stamford; seven brothers, Judge Joe Wade of Beeville, Mart M. Wade, Ney Wade, Henry Wade and James Wade, all of Dallas, Dr. O. C. Wade of Bonham and Faires Wade of Corpus Christi. Source: Bee Picayune of30 Jan 1975."
