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Monday Funeral Set For Fireman
W. T. Cochran
Funeral services for
William T. Cochran, 40 year old Dallas fireman who suffered a
heart attack while fighting a blaze Friday, will be held at
11:30 a.m. Monday at Sparkman Brand Funeral Chapel.
Interment will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park.
Mr. Cochran was stricken while fighting a fire in the
5400 block of Bonita St. and died 30 minutes later. He had
been a member of the Dallas Fire Department for the past 18 years,
except for voluntary service during World War II, when he served
three years in Africa and Italy with the 606th Ordnance Battalion.
He was born in Dallas, graduated from Woodrow Wilson
High School and attended North Texas State Teachers College in
Denton for two years before entering the Dallas Fire Department
service in 1933. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev.
John H. Bannister of the Sears and Summit Church of Christ.
Music will be by the Pearl and Bryan Church of Christ chorus.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Sue Cochran;
four sisters, Mrs. Helen Frances Johnson of DeSoto, Mrs. Janice Hill
and Mrs. Murial Denment of Lemay, Mo. and Mrs Thelma D. Marshall of
Flat River, Mo.; stepmother, Mrs. Cora Cochran of Flat River; a
brother, Edwin Eric Cochran of Denver, Colo., two aunts, Mrs Altha
McKinney of Dallas and Mrs. Anice Oldfield of Wheeling, Ark.; two
uncles, Edwin Cochran of Dallas and Claude Cochran of Shreveport,
La. Pallbearers will be J.W. Turner, M.C.
Hendrix, E.F. Cronin, L.T. Fletcher, H.B. Reed and R.B. Tucker, all
members of the Dallas Fire Department. Honorary pallbearers will
include other members of the department. |