Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....A.C. Buffington April 27 1960
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Rome News Tribune
Rome News Tribune April 27, 1960
A. C. Buffington Dies Today: Final Rites Set Thursday
 
   A.C. Buffington, 66, of Rome, Rte. 1, died in a local hospital at 5:10 a.m. 
today. Mr. Buffington had been in declining health for the past three years, 
but his condition had been serious since Tuesday when he suffered an attack.
   Mr. Buffington was born in the Texas Valley Community, July 17, 1893, where 
he had resided all of his life and was the son of the late Thomas Buffington 
and Alva Cordle Buffington. He was a member of the Antioch Baptist Church and 
prior to his retirement, he was a well-known farmer and lumberman in the Texas 
Valley Community and was a member of the Georgia Farm Bureau Federation.
   Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Essie Green, to whom he was married 
Dec. 14, 1913; six sons, C.D. "Tim" Buffington, Reuben A.,  Claude R. and Billy 
M. Buffington, all of Rome Rte. 1; Herman A. Buffington, Summerville and Edward 
H. Buffington, Cartersville; step-mother, Mrs. Lula Buffington, Shannon; three 
brothers, E.L. Buffington, Rte. l  Armuchee, Lewis Buffington, Rome Rte. 3 and 
Gordon Buffington, Rome Rte. 1; four sisters, Mrs. W.C. Hicks, Sr. and Mrs. 
Charlie Vandiford of Rome, Mrs. Ralph Cordle, Rome Rte 3 and Mrs. J. C. Lowery, 
Shannon; 18 grand children, two great grand children, and a number of nieces 
and nephews also survive.
   Funeral services will be held at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Antioch Baptist 
Church with the pastor, the Rev. Paul Camp and the Rev. W.F. Conn officiating. 
Intement will follow in the Sand
Springs cemetery.
   Active pallbearers will include six nephews, Charles Flippin, Rufus McCrary, 
Winfred Buffington, Richard and Frank Cordle and W.C. Hicks, Jr. They are asked 
to meet at the home at 3 p.m. Thursday. An honorary escort will be composed of 
the following friends, Tom Pledger, Howard Davis, Walter Selman, Earl Storey, 
Ed Dempsey, Will Corbin, Roy Milsted and Tom Manis.
   Jennings Funeral Home of Rome has charge of the arrangements.
 


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