Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




Dallas Morning News
March 30, 1987; Page: 16a

Deceased Name: SERVICE SET FOR DIMITRA V. ROYSTER
Services for Dimitra V. Royster, co-founder of St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral,
will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the cathedral.

Miss Royster, 64, died Saturday at Gaston Episcopal Hospital after a lengthy 
illness.

She was a native of Teague, Freestone County, who received her bachelor's 
degree in geology from Southern Methodist University. She founded Paleo 
Petroleum Co., an oil exploration firm, in Dallas in the late 1970s and served 
as its president until the early 1980s, relatives said.

Miss Royster and her brother, Bishop Dimitri Royster, founded the St. Seraphim
cathedral, an American Orthodox church, in Dallas in 1954. The church now has 
more than 100 members.

Miss Royster is survived by her brother.

Memorials may be made to the St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral building fund.