D.V. "Pat" McMillan
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Funeral services for Mr. D.V. "Pat" McMillan, 94 of DeBerry, Texas, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, August 6, 2022, at Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Allen Tilley officiating. Burial will follow in the Reeves - McMillan Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Visitation with the family will be held from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. prior to the funeral service.
Mr. D.V. "Pat" McMillan was born on June 3, 1928, in the Deadwood community in Panola County, Texas to parents Dewey McMillan and Alma Ophelia Attaway. He passed this life on July 28, 2022, at his home surrounded by his family.
He married his lovely wife, Dona Elizabeth Wimberly on March 14, 1946, in Panola County, Texas and they celebrated nearly 73 years of marriage before she passed in 2019.
He was ordained a deacon of New Shady Grove Baptist Church in 1952 and later became a member of First Baptist Church in Carthage. He taught Sunday School for many years and served as a Gideon. He loved to tell everyone he knew about Jesus. He loved to fish, hunt, garden, and spending time in the outdoors.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth McMillan, his parents, and brothers, G.W. McMillan, sisters, Betty Jo Dean, and Wilma Brinkley.
Left to cherish his memory is his son, Mitchell McMillan, and wife Susan of DeBerry; grandchildren, Dionne Lemoine, and husband Marty of Santa Fe, Shane McMillan of Arizona, Jade McMillan, and wife Marie of Fulshear, and Katy Aaron of Carthage; great-grandchildren, Everett, Judson, Sadie, Aubrey, Dominique, and Anisse. Serving as pallbearers will be Jade McMillan, Marty Lemoine, James McRight, Richard Holland, David Yarborough, and David Wooley. If desired, the family requests that memorials be made in Pat's name to First Baptist Church of Carthage or to the Reeves-McMillan Cemetery.