Billy Thomas Frantom Sr.

Obituary For Billy Thomas Frantom Sr.

Billy Thomas Frantom Sr. 94, of Bowie, TX, passed away Tuesday, August 8th, 2023.

Funeral services will take place at 10:00 a.m, in the Chapel of the White Family Funeral Home on Monday, August 14th, with Scott Johnson officiating.

Burial will follow at Elmwood Cemetery in Bowie. Pallbearers will include; Jason Love, Scott Wyss, Levi Frantom, Kevin Frantom, Chris Frantom, Reid Wyss, Rhett Wyss and Herb Temple Jr.

Family will receive friends from 4pm to 6pm on Sunday, August 13th, at the White Family Funeral Home in Bowie.

Billy was born August 30, 1928 in Monroe, Louisiana to Robert Lee and Gerthie Elizabeth Frantom. After graduating high school from Ouachita Parish High School in 1947 he began a career with the Louisiana Power & Light Co. Billy married Johnette Gay Hibbard on June 23, 1949. Billy and his wife Gay moved to Bowie, Texas in 1973 and purchased the Travel Inn Restaurant. In 1979, they opened the landmark restaurant, the Jim Bowie Restaurant on HWY 287.

He is preceded in death by his wife of 51 years, Gay, his parents and two sons, John Lane Frantom and Billy Thomas Frantom JR “Tommy”.

Billy is survived by his children, Renee’ Love and husband David of Bowie and Joe Frantom of Fort Worth; grandchildren, Jason Love and wife Katie of Bowie, Elizabeth Wyss and husband Scott of Granbury, Chris Frantom of Nocona, Levi Frantom and wife Ashley of Decatur, and Kevin Frantom and wife Macey of Chico; and numerous great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Should friends desire, memorials can be made in honor of Billy to the Bowie Animal Shelter or the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Arrangements entrusted to the White Family Funeral Home of Bowie, Texas.