Elanore Simpson Boone
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Memorial services for Mrs. Elanore Simpson Boone, 93, of Carthage, Texas will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, September 10, 2022, at St. Paul Presbyterian Church with Rev. Robert Adamson officiating. Visitation will be 10 - 11:00 a.m. Saturday, prior to the service. Cremation arrangements were entrusted to Hawthorn Funeral Home.
Elanore Simpson Boone was born on June 19, 1929, in Evanston, Illinois. Elanore was the fourth and last child born to the marriage of Dick and Louise Scott Simpson. She passed this life September 8, 2022, in Carthage, Texas. Elanore was raised from age 3 in Taylorville, Illinois. She attended James Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois and then Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas. She met and married Daniel E. Boone in 1950, together they raised four children in Carthage, Texas. Elanore was preceded in death by her husband Dan in 2007 and a son Jeffery Scott Boone in 2014; brother, Andy Simpson; sisters, Dixie Whitaker and Caroline Rogers. She looked forward to seeing them all again and so she will.
She is survived by her devoted children, Mandy Leggett and husband Paul, Tim Boone and wife Penny, and Steve Boone and wife Janet all of Carthage. Elanore was proud of the fact that she had seven grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren, Adam and Heather Leggett, Meagan Leggett, Abby and Matt Sparks, Kevin and Ashley Boone, Patrick Boone, Bryce and Lauren Boone, Olivia Boone, and numerous nieces, nephews, and a host of friends.
In lieu of flowers, Elanore requested donations be made to her dear friend, Lee Gibson in care of St. Paul Presbyterian Church, 2000 W. Panola St., Carthage, TX 75633.
An online guestbook may be signed at www.hawthornfuneralhome.com