Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



The Fairfield Recorder
January 2008


Sylvia Bastin Childs

Funeral services will be held today for former Fairfield city council member and
longtime Freestone County Museum curator Sylvia Bastin Childs, 79, who died 
Sunday, Jan. 27.

Mrs. Childs was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 26, 1928 parents Roy and 
Julia Kucta Bastin.

Services will be held at 2 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Fairfield
where Mrs. Childs was a member.

Rev. Paul Kethley and David Filis will officiate.

Burial is at Fairfield Cemetery.
Pallbearers are Harry Moore, David Zilar, Pontene Daniel, Steve Emmons, Russ 
Loper, Danny Robertson, Jim McKee and Ed Rewine.

Honorary pallbearers are Neil Bass, Dr. J.H. Keller, Dr. Harold Moore, Tolbert 
Casey, Jr., Barry Capps, Charles Easterwood, Billy Ray Vestal, Dr. Jack Lendon 
Ritter, Sam Billbournias and Lane Stripling.

Mrs. Childs is survived by husband Clifton Childs, Jr. of Fairfield; daughters 
Julie Ann Medford and husband Rick of Fairfield; brothers-in-law J.D. Hudson, Jr.
of Waco, Roman J. Petrowski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Bill Goralski of 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; sisters Betty Ruppell of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Janice 
Johnson and husband Harold of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Sally Muzlowski and 
husband Harvey of Sumpter, South Carolina; sister-in-law Francis Bastin of 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin; grandchildren Corin Kathleen Burrell and husband Eric and 
Thomas Edward Childs Medford.

She is preceded in death by daughter Janice Kathleen Childs; parents Julia Kucta
and Roy C. Bastin; sisters Lucille Peotrowski, Le Wanna Goralski, Belvene 
Kozlosski and husband Frank, Geraldine Emanuclle and husband Joe, Norma Herman 
and husband Jack, and Marlene Bastin; brother Roy C. Bastin; mother-in-law Corin
Watson Childs; and sister-in-law Carolyn Childs Hudson.

Memorials may be made to the Freestone County Museum and Fairfield History Club.

Arrangements by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home of Fairfield.

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Corsicana Daily Sun
January 27 & 28, 2008

Death Notices

Sylvia Childs, 79, of Fairfield passed away on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 in 
Fairfield. Services are pending. Arrangements by Griffin-Roughton Funeral
Home, Fairfield.