{"id":17362,"date":"2025-03-05T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eextra.news\/paris\/?p=17362"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T19:05:28","slug":"nell-brison-pursifull-obituary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eextra.news\/paris\/2025\/03\/05\/nell-brison-pursifull-obituary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nell Brison Pursifull || Obituary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17363 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/eextra.news\/paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Obituary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eextra.news\/paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Obituary.png 1200w, https:\/\/eextra.news\/paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Obituary-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/eextra.news\/paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Obituary-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/eextra.news\/paris\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/Obituary-768x403.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Nell Brison Pursifull, 97 of Paris, passed away, Sunday, March 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral services have been set for Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 11:00 AM at Fry Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Bill Coleman officiating.\u00a0 Visitation is scheduled for 10:00 AM. Interment will follow at Meadowbrook Gardens Cemetery.\u00a0 The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service times.<\/p>\n<p>Nell, better known as \u201cMawmaw\u201d, was born the youngest of five children on November 7, 1927, in Gilmer, Texas to W.J. and Fannie Brison. She had 4 siblings, Jack Brison, Bill Brison, Ruth Nichols and Katherine \u201cKack\u201d Castlebury.\u00a0 She was a fabulous cook, especially known for her homemade chocolate chip cookies and pop-corn balls.\u00a0 Nell was an avid football and sports fan.\u00a0 She was the oldest living Gilmer Yamboree Queen, having been crowned in 1947.\u00a0 She attended and was a member of the Gilmer Marching Band, playing an instrument that was twice as big as her, the trombone.\u00a0 Nell was a faithful member of the First United Methodist Church of Paris for over 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet Nell is survived by her children, Tom Pursifull and wife Claudia, Tim Pursifull and wife Angie; grandchildren, Kyle Pursifull and wife Melissa, Lindsey Severson and husband Chad, Amanda Fore and husband Justin, Abby Pursifull; great-grandchildren, Grant Pursifull, Emmi Severson, Braxton Fore, Grayson Pursifull, Lila Severson and Berkley Fore.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, W.C. \u201cSonny\u201d Pursifull.<\/p>\n<p>Serving as Pallbearers will be Kyle Pursifull, Grant Pursifull, Grayson Pursifull, Justin Fore, Braxton Fore, Chad Severson.<\/p>\n<p>Online condolences may be sent to the Pursifull family by visiting\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk155432\" title=\"http:\/\/www.fry-gibbs.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fry-gibbs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"\">www.fry-gibbs.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nell Brison Pursifull, 97 of Paris, passed away, Sunday, March 2, 2025. Funeral services have been set for Saturday, March 8, 2025, at 11:00 AM at Fry Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Bill Coleman officiating.\u00a0 Visitation is scheduled for 10:00 AM. Interment will follow at Meadowbrook Gardens Cemetery.\u00a0 The family will receive friends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4321,207,17],"class_list":["post-17362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-nell-brison-pursifull","tag-obituary","tag-paris-tx"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nell Brison Pursifull || Obituary - Paris<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nell Brison Pursifull, 97 of Paris, passed away, Sunday, March 2, 2025.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eextra.news\/paris\/2025\/03\/05\/nell-brison-pursifull-obituary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nell Brison Pursifull || Obituary - 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