Obituaries:  William Alonzo Stringer, Sabine Parish       S-365
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 21, 1964
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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William Alonzo Stringer

  Funeral services for William Alonzo Stringer, age 88 years, 1
month, 17 days, were held at Pisgah Baptist Church, January 18,
at 2 p.m. Interment was in Pisgah Cemetery, Stringer Funeral Home
of Jasper, Texas, was in charge.

  He was born and raised in Sabine Parish, moving to East Texas in
1933. He lived several years in the Jasper vicinity, moving to
Newton to make his home with his son, after he lost his wife,
July 28, 1916.

  He has been a member of a Baptist Church since a young man,
having served faithfully until his health failed him a few years
ago. He has served as a deacon for approximately fifty years.

  His survivors are three sons, Leo Stringer, and Lois of Jasper,
Texas, and Hoyt of Newton, Texas; three daughters, Mrs. Beatrice
Bridges of Hornbeck, La., Mrs. Edna Robinson of Livingston, Tex.,
Mrs. Eula Mae Lane of Jasper, Tex.; 21 grandchildren; and 26
great grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were his grandsons. He was a wonderful father, and
will be greatly missed by all who knew him, but our loss is
Heaven's gain.