Ida Atherine Warner

1943 - 2024  (81 years)

• Name	Ida Atherine Warner  [1]
  Birth	4 Nov 1943	Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	14 Nov 2024	Tyler, Smith County, Texas
  Burial	23 Nov 2024	Plainview Cemetery (aka Plainview Family Cemetery), Pineland, Sabine County, Texas
  Notes	Ida "Ann" Atherine Tatom, of Pineland, Texas, passed away at the age of 81 on November 14, 2024, in Tyler, Texas. Born on November 4, 1943, in Lufkin, Texas, to Lawrence Elmer Warner and Ida Atherine "Jean" Crager Warner, Ann was a native of Diboll, Texas, and a long-standing resident of Sabine County for more than 50 years. Ann dedicated many years of her life as a paraprofessional at Jasper ISD, where she touched the lives of numerous students and colleagues. A member of Bethany Missionary Baptist Church, her faith and commitment to her community were unwavering. Ann Tatom was a woman of many things, she was a wife, mother, grandmother, friend, avid traveler, gardener, and loved animals. To know Ann was to know that she loved her kids and she loved her grandkids more than anything thing in the world and she had seen a lot of it with her favorite place being in Hawaii. At any point in time, you would find her chasing a grandkid to a school event, out in her garden, cooking in her kitchen, or drinking a big cup of coffee out on her porch as a small pleasure in life. Everyone knew not to interrupt her when watching Mr. Tom Selleck on TV during Blue Bloods, Elvis was the king, and to proceed with caution if you heard Murder, She Wrote playing in the background. If you were to talk to Ann, you would know just how proud she was of her kids and how well they have raised their families to be good people teaching them to be kind and help those in need something she did frequently when working in the public education system and seeing kids from all backgrounds. Ann pushed her kids and her grandkids to be the best they could be if that meant to learn a trade or a college education so that they could take care of themselves and leave the world a better place than they found it. She leaves behind a her loving family, son, Cecil "Gooter" Tatom of Pineland; daughters, Shelia Lowe, Frances Clark and husband, Franklin, and April McCauley and husband, Chris, all of Pineland; sister, Shirley Dobbs of Hemphill; sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Henry of Homer, Texas, and Carolyn Henry of Lufkin; grandchildren, Cary Lowe and wife, Jordan, Jerrod Oliver and wife, Beth, of Pearland, Liz Dorris, Christopher Clark and wife, Diana, Mary Clark Boehme and husband, Maxx, Sandra Clark, Melinda Clark, Ivy Jacob Clark, Melanie McCauley, Kaitlin McCauley, and Tristan McCauley; great-grandchildren, Gus Dorris, Payton Hranicky, Charlie Dorris, Haven Box, Hadley Lowe, Justin Oliver, Robert Clark, and Zoey Clark and her sweet dog, Angel, that was her companion in her later years. She gained her own set of angel wings and was reunited with her loved ones in heaven including her husband, Cecil Tatom; parents, Lawrence Warner and Jean Henry; stepfather, Lonnie Burl Henry; daughter, Melanie Jean Tatom; and brothers, Marvin Henry and Robert Henry, along with many other family members. Visitation will be held from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 2024, at Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr Street, Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 23, 2024, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel, officiated by Bro. Joe Bennett and Bro. Jim Bennett. Burial will follow at Plainview Cemetery. Starr Funeral Home in Hemphill, Texas, is assisting the Tatom family during this time. Ann's life was a testament to her deep love for her family and community, and she will be profoundly missed by all who knew her. Memories and condolences can be made at starrfuneralhome.com, downloaded from their website Also published in The Sabine County Reporter, November 20, 2024, Page 4
  Person ID	I23331	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	27 Dec 2024

  
  

  Family	Cecil Connally Tatom,   b. 26 Jul 1944, Sabine County, Texas d. 14 Dec 2016, Nacogdoches County, Texas (Age 72 years)
  Children	1. Living   2. Living   3. Living   4. Living
  Family ID	F7906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2007

  
  

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  Birth - 4 Nov 1943 - Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas Death - 14 Nov 2024 - Tyler, Smith County, Texas Burial - 23 Nov 2024 - Plainview Cemetery (aka Plainview Family Cemetery), Pineland, Sabine County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S266] Ancestry.com - Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 [database online], (Ancestry.com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche.).