Obituaries:  Angie Mae Smith Kistler, Sabine, DeSoto Parish       K-234
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Mar 7, 1985
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Angie Mae Smith Kistler

  Memorial services for Mrs. Angie Mae Smith Kistler, 87, were
held at Drewett Funeral Home in Mansfield, at 2 p.m., on Sunday,
March 3. The Rev. David Rakes, associate pastor of Broadmoor
Baptist Church in Shreveport, officiated.

  Mrs. Kistler died Saturday, February 23, 1985, at Pleasant Hill
Hospital. She had been a resident of North Sabine Nursing Home in
Pleasant Hill for several years, and had become progressively
weaker in recent months. She was a member of the Methodist Church
in Pleasant Hill.

  Mrs. Kistler was born in Mansfield, La., the daughter of Charles
W. Smith, and Leona Matthews Smith. She and her husband, Ernest
L. Kistler, Sr., resided in San Antonio, Texas. Some years after
his death, she returned to Louisiana, and resided near Coushatta,
La. She lived there until entering the nursing home in 1982.

  She is survived by her sister, Vera Smith Alexander of
Coushatta; her son, Ernest L. Kistler, PH.D., P.E. Formerly of
Houston, Texas, and now residing in Shreveport; three
grandchildren, Ernest L. Kistler, III, M.D. of Shreveport, Linda
Kistler Hastings of Houston, and Steven Lawson Kistler of Dallas;
two great granddaughters, Lauryn Hastings of Houston, and Kristen
Kistler of Shreveport; and several nieces and nephews.

  Mrs. Kistler was buried in San Antonio, Texas, next to her
husband. She will be missed and remembered lovingly by family and
many friends. The family requests that, in lieu of flowers,
memorials be made to Foundation for Christian Living, Pawling, N.
Y., 12564.