Obituaries:  Floyd Colston, Sabine Parish       C-423
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 7, 1974
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Floyd Colston

  Floyd Colston, 63, a long-time Greenwood, La. resident, died
Tuesday, Feb. 26, in Willis-Knighton Hospital, following a short
illness.

  Funeral services were held Friday, March 1, at 10 a.m., in First
Baptist church of Greenwood, under the direction of Warren
Meadows Funeral Home of Many. Masonic graveside rites were held
Friday, at 3 p.m., in Fort Jesup Cemetery in Many, with Rev.
George Carkeet of Greenwood, and Rev. D. Wesley Ates of
Texarkana, Ark. officiating.

  Mr. Colston was born on Dec. 20, 1910, in Vowells Mill, and was
an employee of Waskom, Tex. Natural Gas Co. for 15 years. Until
his retirement two years ago, he was owner and manager of
Colston's Fina Station of Bethany, Tex.

  Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ella Colston; two sons, Leon
Colston, and Willard Colston, both of Mesquite, Tex.; two
daughters, Ruth Rials of Greenwood, and Pearlie Walker of
Texarkana, Ark.; a brother, Claude.