Frances Sanders Babbitt

GORMAN- Frances Sanders Babbitt, age 91, passed away peacefully, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at her home in Gorman. Service will be 2:00 P.M. Saturday, March 7, 2015 at the Higginbotham Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Barry Schahn officiating. Burial will follow in Oaklawn Cemetery. The visitation will be Friday evening from 5:00 P. M. to 7:00 P.M. at the funeral home. She was born October 22, 1923 in Weinert, Texas to Richard William Alexander and Gracie Frances (Young) Alexander. She married Gus Sanders on October 22, 1939 in Weinert, Texas. He preceded her in death on July 18, 1986. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist for at least thirty years. She was in the furniture business in Fort Worth for thirty years. She was a loving mother and grandmother. She is survived by three daughters, Dolores Bowsher and husband, Wade of Perrin, Margie Whitcher and husband, Gary of Troup and Patricia Isbell of Gorman; one son, Ronnie Sanders and wife, Debbie of Fort Worth; grandson/son, Jeremy Sanders and wife, Wendy; husband, William Babbitt of Knox City; sister, Edith Ross of Midland; 19 grandchildren, numerous great and great-great grandchildren. She had five living generation. She was preceded in death by daughter, Jeannie Whittier, and son, Robert Lynn Sanders, and one grandson, Rondal Wayne Sanders, two brothers and one sister.