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Esther Boston
Visitation will be until 9 p. m. Saturday at the Duncan-Roberts Funeral Home chapel and from 2 to 3 p. m. Sunday at Shiloh Baptist Church. Mrs. Boston was born June 10, 1913, in Cedar Lane to John Jones and Lovie Spiller Henderson and died Nov. 23, 1994, in Matagorda General Hospital in Bay City. She was a resident of Bay City and a member of Enterprise Baptist Church in Bay City. Survivors include a daughter, Gertie C. Edwards of Freeport; two sons, Johnnie Sidney Sr. of Bay City and Leroy Sidney of Cedar Lane; 21 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, a great-great-grandchild; a brother, Melvin Sidney of Galveston and a host of nieces, nephews, many cousins and other relatives and a family of friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, E. J. Boston; her father, John Jones, her mother, Lovie Spiller Henderson; four sisters, Olivia Boone, Bertha Austin, Lawnie Franklin and Willie “Babe” Moseley and two brothers, Buster Sidney and Roscoe Henderson. Daily Tribune, November 25, 1994 |
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Services for John Brown, 66, of Angleton, formerly of Cedar Lane, will be at 1 p. m. Wednesday, April 8 at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Cedar Lane with Rev. Steven Staten officiating. Burial will be in Shiloh Cemetery in Cedar Lane. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p. m. Tuesday, April 7 at the Dixon Funeral Home Chapel in Brazoria. Mr. Brown died Friday, April 3 at Matagorda County General Hospital in Bay City. He was a member of Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Cedar Lane and was a Self-Employed Cement Finisher. He is survived by his mother, Lorena Brown of Cedar Lane; one son, Willie Murray and wife Karen of Brazoria; two brothers, Nelson Brown of Cedar Lane, and Robert Brown, of Galveston; three sisters, Rosie Kemp and husband Chester, and Pinkie Johnson and husband Herman, all of Cedar Lane, and Dorothy Wright with husband Ethan of Brazoria; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and a host of other relatives and friends. Active pallbearers are Larry Monroe, Darrell Kemp, Don Paige, Allan Brown, George Lemon, Donald Fields, Jesse Gee, and Eugene Johnson, Jr. Honorary pallbearers are Willie Murray, Nelson Brown, Robert Brown, Ethan Wright, Herman Johnson and Chester Kemp. Arrangements are with Dixon Funeral Home of Brazoria.
Daily Tribune, April 7, 1998 |
