Luther Jesse Samples, 92 of Greenville, passed away on Saturday, January 16, 2016 at Briarcliff Health Center. Funeral services will be held 11 A.M., Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Kelly Carr officiating. Burial will be in Memoryland Memorial Park. Visitation will be Tuesday, January 19, 2016 from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at the funeral home.
Mr. Samples was born in Greenville, Texas on July 19, 1923 to Thomas Matthew Samples and Eliza Alberta Gardner. He married Margaret L. Isham on August 17, 1946 in Prairie Valley, Hunt County, Texas. He was a WWII Army Veteran and a retired truck driver for the Greenville area. He was a member of Dixon Baptist Church.
Mr. Samples is survived by his sons, Montie Samples and wife, Jackie, Donnie Samples and Ronnie Samples and wife, Pam, daughters, Shirley Demar, Sheila Haynes and husband, Troy, and Connie Porter and husband, Mark, ten grandchildren, fifteen great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.
He is preceded in death by his wife in 2012, grandchild, Dionna Crossland and ten brothers and sisters.
Pallbearers will be Troy Dale Haynes, Tony Haynes, Tray Haynes, Josh Porter, Colton Crossland, Trenton Crossland, Mike Porter and Jackie Isham.