Obitutiary: John A. Austin
Submitter: Carolyn P. Avery  Sept 2003
Source: West Carroll Gazette 19 April 1951




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                    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.