Oakwood Cemetery

04/07/2026

March News from Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove

Spring arrived in March. We know this because mowing season did as well! The entire cemetery received a spruce up as faded and out of season flowers and broken items were removed. Look for another to take place in October. Our beautiful trees sometimes take a lot of effort. The oak trees shed thousands of acorns. Those were removed in March. The Oakwood Cemetery Association’s annual meeting also takes place in March. During these informative meetings, upcoming projects for the year are discussed, planned, and voted on. March keeps our volunteers busy!

Our groundskeeper is a volunteer who daily keeps her eye on the condition of the cemetery. She ensures the ditches outside the fence are clear of trash and the inside is always kept tidy.

Our yearly letter, which gave a sample of Oakwood events in 2025, has been mailed. This letter is a reminder it is very expensive to keep Oakwood a beautiful place to visit. If you own a space or a lot, please remember, the mowing and upkeep are not free. Donations are very important to cover the expenses. Volunteers do a lot, but they can’t do everything!

Memorials for Roger Joyce were received in March.

Oakwood Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 96, Honey Grove, TX 75446
[email protected]

03/14/2026

Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove

March is a cleanup month for Oakwood Cemetery. Faded and seasonal flowers, along with broken and inappropriate items, will be removed from graves. Spraying for weeds was completed in February before grass started coming out for the spring. Large bur oak acorns totally covered the ground in two large areas of the cemetery, making walking dangerous. These have also been removed.

The Oakwood board of directors will hold its annual meeting Monday evening, March 16, at 7:00, in the history room of the Honey Grove Library.

Memorials for February
Byrd Hawkins
Julie Moran

02/05/2026

Oakwood Cemetery in Honey Grove

Oakwood Cemetery is beautiful any time. Covered in snow, it is breathtaking. March is spring cleanup month, when faded flowers and broken items are removed.

Memorials were received in January for Dennis Clark and Joe Clyde Henry.

01/08/2026

This flower arrangement was found under a pile of leaves by the fence on the southeast corner of the cemetery. If you know where it belongs, please let us know so we can return it to its rightful place. Thank you.

12/06/2025

Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove – November News

On the day after Thanksgiving, poinsettias were placed on the graves of 650 veterans at Oakwood Cemetery. These men and women served in several different wars, and while each veteran’s story is different, here is a sampling from a group who deserves special recognition. There are both Confederate and Union soldiers buried here. Soldiers who died in WWI and those who survived are buried here. Two brothers fought in WWII. One was killed by a sniper. The day his brother, a pilot, learned of the death, he left on his own mission. He was killed that day. Although the brothers are buried elsewhere, they are memorialized at Oakwood with a distinctive tombstone honoring them both. Survivors of the Bataan Death March, prisoners of war held in German prison camps, twin sisters who served in the WAACS, and many other veterans of WWII are all buried here. A victim of the Japanese Hell Ships and one whose body was never recovered from the submarine in which he died, also have tombstones memorializing them. At least one soldier who died in the Korean War and one in the Vietnam War are buried here. Veterans who survived those wars are also buried at Oakwood.
These 650 poinsettias mark more than the grave of a veteran, they mark the grave of an individual who served and sacrificed, an individual who played an important part in American history, an individual who led a unique and interesting life, and finally, an individual who deserves to be honored and remembered. If you would like to learn more about the veterans buried in Oakwood Cemetery, go to the Oakwood Cemetery page on the TXGenWeb site at txfannin.org. Choose the “Cemeteries” tab and follow the instructions to locate Oakwood Cemetery. Military memorials are designated by a folded flag. Besides the individual’s military service information, you may find a photo, obituary, biography, death record, or family relationships which will help tell the interesting life story of these veterans.
The annual poinsettia project is a special project of Freida Moreland. She would like to recognize her helpers this year--Mike and Laurie Arnold, Pam Waters, Amy Waters, Sandy Morrison, Keith Moreland, and Bill Moreland. Thank you, Freida, and everyone who helped honor our veterans at Oakwood.

11/06/2025

Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove

Oakwood Cemetery is a special place on any given day. But Veterans Day and Memorial Day are especially poignant times to visit. This year, as you drive by on Hwy 100, please note--or better yet, turn in and get out of your car to visit--the group of veterans buried by the fence. These thirteen patients of the VA Hospital in Bonham during the 1970s were paupers without family to tend to their last needs. Harold Sorrells of Cooper-Sorrells Funeral Home gave them a final resting place at Oakwood. Nine of their VA headstones did not have a concrete pad underneath. Thanks to caring individuals who recognized these veterans deserve to be remembered, donations were made, and pads were purchased and installed. Thank you to everyone who donated.

November 11th is Veterans Day. Please remember all our veterans and the sacrifices they have made for our country and our freedoms.

10/05/2025

Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove

If you have driven by Oakwood Cemetery lately, you may have noticed a new concrete drain along the road beside the section where the two cemeteries were relocated when Bois d’Arc Lake was built. This area of the cemetery has always held water after a rainfall, making it impossible to sell lots there. The new drain directs the water to the ditch by Hwy 100, and with the work completed in September, this area is now as beautiful, and the lots as desirable, as the rest of the cemetery.

Please remember that October is “cleanup” month, and faded flowers and broken objects will be removed from the cemetery.

09/25/2025

Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove

Oakwood Cemetery has had a successful August and September. The dedication of the football on Faye “Mule” Wilson’s tombstone saw a great turnout for a very nice event. Mowing and maintenance continues to keep our cemetery beautiful. Just a reminder that October is fall cleanup month. Faded and out-of-season flowers and other unsightly items will be removed. This will have Oakwood spruced up and ready for the upcoming holiday season.

08/08/2025

Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove

Football has a long and storied past in Honey Grove. One of the early greats was Fay “Mule” Wilson. After graduating from Honey Grove High School in 1922, he went on to play for Texas A&M, captaining the team to the 1925 Southwest Conference Championship. After A&M, he went on to become not only the first Texas state high school track champion, but also the first Aggie, to play for the NFL. Mule played for the Buffalo Rangers, the 1930 and 1931 World Champion Green Bay Packers, the Staten Island Stapletons, and the Portsmouth Spartans. One of the highlights of his career was scoring six touchdowns to help win the 1927 World Championship for the New York Giants. Mule Wilson died in 1937 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. A marble football honoring his place on the Giants team was placed on his tombstone, but later was stolen and has been missing for many years. A replacement football will be dedicated at a special ceremony on Saturday, August 23, at 10:00 a.m., at Oakwood. The public is invited to attend and honor one of Honey Grove’s most successful and memorable football players. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend.

So far, this has been an unusually wet summer. The weeds love this weather, so the mowing has been nonstop. In addition to mowing, tree maintenance is an important part of keeping Oakwood looking its best. Summer tree trimming has begun. Dead parts and overgrown limbs have been removed, including the dead top of one bois d’arc. The Oakwood board and volunteers work hard year-round to keep the cemetery beautiful, and your help is always appreciated.

07/04/2025

Oakwood Cemetery, Honey Grove, June News

June was a busy month at Oakwood Cemetery, mostly due to spring rains. Mowing never stopped. “Careless weeds” have long been the bane of cotton farmers in our area, and now they have invaded the ground along the outside fences, especially on Oak Street. They had to be pulled by hand and the ground sprayed to try to keep them from reappearing. Also, a large limb broke and fell in the road. That tree had to be removed because it was completely rotted. A lot of silk flowers were inside the tree trunk, including some of the poinsettias placed on veterans’ graves last Christmas. The squirrels had been very busy for quite a while!

New headstones were set. This is always exciting because we know once the headstone is in place, that person will never be forgotten. Last year, donations were given to buy a football to replace the granite football stolen years ago from the headstone of Fay "Mule" Wilson. The headstone and football were donated long ago by the New York Giants. The new granite football was ordered and is now ready to be placed on the headstone. There are plans for a dedication in August which will be open for everyone to attend. Look at his page on Oakwood's website at https://www.txfannin.org/memorial/49322/fay-mule-wilson to learn about Mule Wilson. He was very famous and loved in Honey Grove all those years ago. This shows he is not forgotten.

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06/04/2025

A huge "Thank You!" to the great group of volunteers who placed the flags on the veterans' graves for Memorial Day.