Mrs. Mary Preston Passes Away
Mrs. Mary Preston (nee Ousley)
passed away at the Soldiers Home
Hospital early Sunday morning,
February 13 at the age of 59 years.
Survivors include a daughter,
Mrs. Charlene Alcorn, a son James
B. Preston, both of St. Louis, two
brothers, Dr. E. W. Ousley and
Clyde Ousley, two sisters Mrs. Paul
Winter and Mrs. Chas. Cook.
Funeral services were held at
the Licklider Funeral Home at 2
p.m. Wednesday with Fred R. Bar-
ber, pastor of the First Christian
Church, officiating. Burial in the
Masonic Cemetery.
(St. James Journal newspaper;
Friday, February 18, 1955 edition;
Pg. 4)