Obituaries:  Asa Prier Stone, Jr., Sabine, DeSoto Parish       S-350
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 11, 1992
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Asa Prier Stone, Jr.

  Mr. Asa Prier Stone Jr. was born November 24, 1915, and died in
Baton Rouge, November 5.

  Funeral services were conducted Saturday, November 7, at 11
a.m., by Reverend Richard Humphries, and R. George Harbuck, in
the First United Methodist Church, Mansfield. Burial was in the
Mansfield Cemetery.

  Prier was born and reared in Mansfield. He was a lifelong member
of the Methodist Church. After graduation from high school, he
attended La. Tech, Ruston, where he was a member of the football
team. Upon graduation from Tech, he married Glen Ellen Stokes,
and worked for Nabors Trailers in Mansfield.

  During WWII, he served as a pilot in the Pathfinder Group of the
8th Air Force, flying missions from England.

  After the war, he returned to Nabors Trailers, and later worked
at Many Motor Company, Many. In 1957, he purchased an automobile
dealership in Golden Meadow, where he and his family lived until
his retirement, at which time they moved to Baton Rouge, and
lived there until the time of his death.

  Prier is survived by his wife, Glen Ellen; his daughter, Ellen
Edgar of Baton Rouge; his granddaughter, Amanda Talley, also of
Baton Rouge; his sisters, Mrs. Amy S. Johnson of Flencoe, Mrs.
Sophia S. Cook of Ruston; and his brother, Ollie L. Stone Sr. of
Mansfield; and several nieces and nephews.