Lamar County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Biard, Albert Johnson January 8, 1954
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Houston Chronicle, January 9-10, 1954
From the Houston Chronicle, January 9-10, 1954

A. J. BIARD, Retired Gas Company Official, Dies

A. J. Biard, 65, of 1810 West Alabama, who retired January 1 as assistant 
secretary-treasurer of the Texas Distribution Division of United Gas 
Corporation, died late Friday in St. Joseph’s Hospital.

He had been ill only a few days.

A native of Paris, Lamar County, he attended public schools in Blossom and 
Paris before starting to work as a clerk in the United Gas sales division.

He came to Houston as traveling auditor for United Gas in 1931 and was 
transferred two years later to the Beaumont division as office manager.  In 
1937 he returned to Houston where he held a similar position.  Eight years ago 
he was promoted to the post he held until his retirement.

Mr. Biard was president of the Beaumont Lions Club in 1937.  Two years later 
he became president of the Central Lions Club of Houston and in 1941 he was 
appointed district governor of the Lions.

He was also charter president of the Houston Chapter, National Office 
Management Association; president of the Building Owners and Management 
Association in 1945 and co-chairman in 1950 and 1951 of the industrial 
division of the Harris County Chapter, American Red Cross.

Mr. Biard was a member of the board of directors of the Harris County 
Association for the Blind.  He was a Mason and a member of the Christian 
Church.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Odra Biard and a son, Houston Clay Biard of 
Detroit, Michigan; three grandsons and a sister, Mrs. Katherine Gardner of 
Alice. Also nieces Mrs. A. J. Burke, Houston, Mrs. J. H. Leach, Laredo, Mrs. 
Walter Barrett, Abilene, Mrs. W. W. Wilson, Alice; nephews, Robert Gardner, 
Rosenburg, J. L. Gardner, Beeville, Frank Gardner, Houston, John Biard, Los 
Angeles, CA, Ruffin Biard, Dallas

Settegast-Kopt will arrange the funeral.  Burial will be at Forest Park 
Cemetery


Additional Comments:
Albert Johnson Biard was born in Dec 15, 1888 in Paris Texas, to parents Sam 
Houston Biard and Lula Johnson Biard, members of the pioneer family that 
established Biardstown, Texas.

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