Inez May Sawyers
INEZ MAY SAWYERS, daughter of INEZ MAY BRASHEAR and ALLIE BEN SAWYERS, was born March 31, 1904 in Jacksonville, Cherokee, Texas,56, 8059 and died November 25, 1991 in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas.105, 8059 She is buried in Hillside Cemetery, Cuero, DeWitt, Texas.8059
Personal Information
Inez M. Sawyers
- was an art teacher at St. Mary's Hall for 25 years8059
- was a member of the San Antonio Art League8059
- was a member of the San Antonio Conservation Society8059
Newspaper Articles
Victoria Advocate, January 7, 19231589
A. B. Sawyers returned to his home in this city Friday after accompanying his daughter, Miss Inez Sawyers to Belton, Tex., where she re-entered Baylor College for Women after spending the holidays at home. Mr. Sawyers had the misfortune to lose his tire rack of his car, but the insertion of an advertisement in the Belton newspaper turned the trick and he now has his extra tires once more.
San Antonio Express, September 7, 19241586
Miss Inez Sawyers returned last week from New York City, where she spent the summer with her sister, Martha, who is an art student in that city. Miss Martha accompanied her home.
San Antonio Express, January 23, 19351584
MISS INEZ SAWYERS, Dancing Instructor, Returns to S. A.
Miss Inez Sawyers, who has spent the past six months in New York, studying dancing and art, has returned to San Antonio and will open a studio in the near future.
Miss Sawyers studied the modern dance at the Mary Wigmam School of Dancing and Martha Graham School; Folk and National dancing at the Chalif School of Dancing and ballroom dancing iwth Mary Cussans. Miss Sawyers studied art with Ralph M. Pearson, director of The Design Work Shop, a school of modern creative art.
CLASSES FOR CHILDREN
Including natural and creative dancing for young children; ballroom dancing for beginners; moder dancing for children of 10 to 16 years and classes in art for children of 5 to 14 years.
Classes for adults including the modern dance and rhythmic exercises.
Those interested may reach Miss Sawyers at
PARKVIEW 26228
San Antonio Express, August 25, 19351587
CUERO
An outstanding hospitality of the week was the garden party on Thursday afternoon when Miss Inez Sawyers and Mrs. Charles Ladd Jr. of San Antonio received a large number of their friends on the spacious lawn at the Sawyers home on Reuss Boulevard. Mrs. Sawyers received with her daughters.
San Antonio Express, August 2, 19361583
CUERO
Miss Inez Sawyers assisted by her mother, Mrs. A. B. Sawyers, entertained with a small seated tea on Tuesday between the hours of 6:30 and 7:30. Assisting Inez were Mrs. Edgar Smith, Miss Margaret Peavy and Mrs. Homer Blanton.
Miss Inez Sawyers entertained with a dinner party on Thursday evening. Present were the hostess, her sister, Mrs. Charles Ladd Jr. of San Antonio, Messrs. and Mesdames Charles Ayo, Homer Blanton, Howell Houston and Jack Howerton and Miss Margaret Peavy, Dan Peavy, Ritchie Taylor and Verlinde Vandenberge of Victoria.
San Antonio Light, September 10, 19401588
Miss Inez Sawyers to Leave for Tulsa, Okla.
Miss Inez Sawyers will depart soon for Tulsa, Okla., where she will teach the coming winter.
San Antonio Light, July 29, 19471601
Inez Sawyer and her sister, Nancy Ladd, are attending summer school at Sul Ross State Teachers' college, Alpine, where the campus is so crowded they have to commute from the Maria air base, 21 miles away.
San Antonio Express, August 14, 19501590
San Antonian Guest of Sister In New York City
Miss Inez Sawyers left Saturday for New York to be gone until Sept. 1. She will visit while there with her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Reusswig, both well-known artists. Mrs. Reusswig paints professionally under the name Martha Sawyers.
Miss Sawyer plans to see all the large art exhibitions during the time she spends in New York.
San Antonio Light, March 7, 19581585
Inez Sawyer, head of the art department at St. Mary's hall, is presenting an annual exhibit of her pupils' work Saturday and Sunday at the school.
San Antonio Light, March 7, 19581597
March is a busy month for the artistic Sawyer sisters.
In the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine are many reproductions of pictures by Martha Sawyer Reusswig illustrating the story, "Sketch Book of the Oriend," by her husband Bill Ruesswig.
Inez Sawyer, head of the art department at St. Mary's hall, is presenting an annual exhibit of her pupils' work Saturday and Sundat at the school.
Obituaries
Victoria Advocate, November 27, 19918059
INEZ MAY SAWYERS
CUERO — Inez May Sawyers, 87, of San Antonio, formerly of Cuero, died in a San Antonio hospital Monday, Nov. 25, 1991.
She was born March 31, 1904, in Jacksonville to the late A.B. and Inez Brasher Sawyers. Miss Sawyers attended Columbia University, Frockel League New York City and the University of Texas. She was an art teacher at St. Mary's Hall for 25 years and member of the San Antonio Art League and the San Antonio Conservation Society.
Survivors: sister, Nancy Ladd of San Antonio.
Visitation4 p.m. Thursday at Freund Funeral Home.
Funeral services 10 a.m. Friday at Grace Episcopal Church, the Rev. Bill Dugat officiating.
Burial in Hillside Cemetery, Freund Funeral Home, Cuero.
Census Records
| Date | Location | Enumerated Names |
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| April 15, 1910537 | Victoria, Victoria, Texas |
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| January 19, 1920536 | Victoria, Victoria, Texas | |
| April 17, 1930538 | San Antonio, Bexar, Texas |
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