Wayne County MsArchives Obituaries.....Holston, Lonita Mae Byram May 17, 1958
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The Abilene Reporter-News 5-19-1958 Page 1A
                          2 Abilenians Die In Arizona Crash
 BENSON, Ariz.---Lonnie Leon Presley, 28 year old Abilene man, and Mrs. Lonita 
Mae Holston, 44, his mother-in-law, were killed Saturday night when a moving 
van driven by Presley overturned 12 miles west of here on US 80.
 Highway Patrol Lt. B. D. Velasco said Presley's truck overturnd while he was 
attempting to pass another truck.
 The truck belonged to J. D. Moore Transfer and Storage of Abilene, where 
Presley was employed. He was driving to Los Angeles, Calif.
 The bodies will be flown back to Abilene Monday by Elliott's air service.
 Joint rites will be 10am Tuesday at Elliot's Chapel of Memories with the Rev. 
C. C. Ehler, pastor of the Grace Lutheran Church and Brother Nelson, pastor of 
the Elmdale Baptist Church officiating.
 Mrs. Holston will be buried in Cedar Hill cemetery, followed by the burial of 
Mr. Presley in Winters Lutheran Church Cemetery.
 Presley, whose home address was 3158 S. 16th St. moved to Abilene from 
Runnels County nine years ago. He served in the Korean War and was a member of 
the Grace Lutheran Church.
 Mrs. Holston, the wife of Lester Holston of 1409 Ballinger, was born in 1913 
in Abilene. She was a member of the South Side Baptist Church.
 Presley's survivors include his wife, Louise; one daughter, Kathryn Sue, 4, 
and a son, Lester Eual, 3; his mother, Mrs. Ernest Presley of Abilene; nine 
sisters, Mrs. Lucille Falge, Mrs. Eddie Seelkie, Mrs. Bill Claxton and Opal, 
Linda, and Judy Presley of Abilene, Mrs. Thurman Hobbs and Dorothy Mae Presley 
of Tampa, Fla., and Mrs. Bill Bratton of Irving; and two brothers, Alva Gene 
Presley of Pittsburg, Pa. and Donnie Lee of the home.
 Mrs. Holston's survivors include her husband; four daughters, Mrs. Presley, 
Mrs. Barbara Ann Smith of Wichita Falls and Mrs. Glenda Sue Mitchell and 
Patricia Kay Holston of the home; six sisters, Mrs. Fay Hedges, Mrs. Lucille 
Cleckler, Mrs. Bennie Hubbard, Mrs. Annie Ruth Franklin, Mrs. Helen King, and 
Mrs. Buddy Bryant, all of Abilene; and two brothers, Mack Byram and W. A. 
Byram of Abilene.

Additional Comments:
Lonita was born 8-21-1913 to William Aubrey Byram and Maude Mae Payne Byram. 
Her husband was Noel Lester Holston.

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