Obitutiary: John A. Austin Submitter: Carolyn P. Avery Sept 2003 Source: West Carroll Gazette 19 April 1951 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** JOHN A. AUSTIN Funeral services were held from the Catron-Gay chapel Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock for John A. Austin,74,of Oak Grove, who died Daturday at the Everett-Biggs clinic here. The Rev. M. Neathery officiated at the services and interment followed in the Kilbourne cemetery under the direction of Catron-gay Funeral Home. He is survived by his wife, Lillie; two sons, Monroe of Jonesboro and Bill of Monroe; four step-sons, Riley and Joe Williams of Oak Grove, John Williams of Hamburg, Ark. Stanford Williams U.S. Army, Japan; four daughters,Mrs. Viola Powell and Mrs. Rena Pieraux, Red Cross, Mrs. Pearl Martin, Sicily Island, Mrs. Johnny Evans, Monroe; six step-daughters, Mrs. Lucille Hanson, Beaumont,Texas, Mrs. Lela Ashley, Oak Grove; Miss Evie Williams, Eudora, Ark., Mrs. Eva Newton, Lisbon, Mrs. Lillie Mae Stephenson, Monroe and Mrs. Betty Jean Sullivan, Lake Providence.