STONE, CLOIS DAVID
Surnames: STONE, MILLER, BOWERS, MARSHALL, PETERS, HAYMAN, CRISWELL.
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR CLOIS DAVID STONE
CLOIS DAVID STONE - SCAN OBIT FROM WACO PAPER
CLOIS DAVID STONE - CEMETERY PICTURE
CLOIS DAVID STONE - "THE LAST RIDE"
THE GATESVILLE MESSENGER & Star Forum
Volume 102 - Number 75
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Waco Tribune-Herald
Waco, McLennan Co., Texas
Sunday, May 18, 2003
OBITUARIES B2
CLOIS STONE
Gatesville--Mr. Clois D. Stone, 91, of
Gatesville died Monday, May 12, 2003, at a Waco hospital. Graveside
services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, May 19 at Restland Cemetery with the Rev.
Johnny Miller officiating. Memorial services will follow the graveside
service at 11 a.m. at First United Methodist Church. Visitation will be
from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, May 18 at Scott's Funeral Home.
Mr. Stone was born Sept. 17, 1911, in the
Blevins community of Falls County near Eddy, Texas. He was the son of the
late Charley D. and Lella May Bowers Stone. Also preceding him in death
were his brother, Charles A. Stone of Fredericksburg, Texas, and sister, Mrs. R.
P. (Geneva) Stone Marshall of Kingsville, Texas. He was raised and
attended schools in the Blevins and Eddy community, graduating from
Bruceville-Eddy High School. He married the former Miss Edith Peters of
Lott on Sept. 19, 1942, in Belton. Mr. Stone worked as a clerk at A.S.C.S.
in Falls County and as executive director for A.S.C.S. (now the F.S.A.) in
Galveston, Bastrop, Bell and Coryell Counties for 44 years, retiring in January
1979. He was a member of First United Methodist Church. He was a
longtime member of Gatesville Lions Club, a former member of Coryell County
Chamber of Commerce and Gatesville Riding Club. He was a former director
of the Coryell County Museum and Historical Center. Mr. Stone had an avid
love for farm life; he was once awarded the Championship Hog Caller's award for
Central Texas. He was also a member of the Draft Horse and Mule
Association and the Texas Early Day Tractor and Engine Association in Temple.
His hobbies included photography and artifacts and books relating to farming and
agriculture.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edith
Stone of Gatesville; son, Dr. Paul Stone and his wife Dr. Melissa Stone of
St. Paul, Minn.; sisters, Mrs. Edna Stone Hayman of Houston and Mrs. Lena Stone
Criswell and her husband Glenn of Albuquerque, N. M., and a host of other
relatives and friends.
The family requests that memorials be given
to First United Methodist Church or the Coryell County Museum and Historical
Center.
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