Julia Morton Huber

Julia Morton Huber died Thursday, June 12, 2008.
Funeral: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church in Willow Park, where she was a member. Interment will be private.
Memorials: Donations may be made to Tarrant County Historical Society, Inc., P.O. Box 100074, Fort Worth 76185; or St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church, 117 Ranch House Rd., Willow Park 76087.
Julia was a descendant of several Fort Worth pioneer families and founders of two Tarrant County cities. Her great-great-grandfather, Julian Feild, was one of the first settlers, becoming the first postmaster in Fort Worth and founding the Masonic order. He and his brother-in-law, Ralph Man, built a mill on Walnut Creek, around which the city of Mansfield was developed.
Her grandfather, G.W. Haltom, began the jewelry store bearing his name and acquired land northeast of the city which became known as Haltom City.
Her great-grandfather, Dr. J.T. Feild, was intrumental in bringing the telephone to Fort Worth and had the phone number "1," which was used by the family until the dial phone was introduced in the 1920s.
Julia's mother, Esther Haltom Morton, was queen of the Fat Stock Show. Her great-aunt, Mrs. Will Edrington, was a founding member of the Assembly.
Her father and brother were presidents of the Steeplechase Club.
Julia made her debut at the Assembly Ball after graduating from the Kincaid School in Houston, attending Sarah Lawrence College in New York and the University of Texas in Austin, where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
She was a member of the Junior League of Houston and Fort Worth.
Survivors: Her son, William Morton Huber; cousins, Isabelle Brown Hulsey, Edna Brown Hibbits, Dana Haltom Freese, Jane Haltom Cote, Robert C. Haltom, Carol Cotton, and Joseph Minton; niece, Cara Morton; and nephews, Edwin Neighbors Morton and Theodore Feild Morton III.