Obituaries
 By  Staff Reports Published 
4:01 pm Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Daniel Webster Duncan

Daniel Webster Duncan

November 4, 2012

Daniel Webster Duncan, 89, died Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, at North Austin Medical Center. He was born June 13, 1923, in Red Bay and retired from the Texas State Highway Department in 1988. He was a member of Bammel Road Church of Christ where he had been baptized.

Services were Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at Deaton Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Matthew Payne officiating. Burial was in Hillcrest Memorial Gardens.

Survivors are two sisters, Earline Duncan Skiles, Austin, Texas, and Ima Jeanne Duncan Payne and her husband, Lewis, Golden, Miss.; one brother, Eugene Duncan and wife, Vicky, Detroit, Mich., and a host of nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary White Duncan; parents, Arthur Talmage Duncan and Artie Ledbetter Duncan, four brothers and two sisters, Lois Duncan, Sanders Duncan, Cecil Duncan, Margie Duncan, A.T. Duncan Jr. and Gladys Duncan.

Pallbearers were Lewis Payne, Emmett Duncan Skiles, Ron Duncan, J.P. Wilemon Jr. and Gerald Hester.

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