Billy Floyd Priest 07/27/1916 -10/12/2006

Services are scheduled for Billy Floyd Priest, 90 of Jacksonville formerly of Austin, for Friday, October 13th at 11 A.M. at Cook Walden/Forest Oaks Funeral Home Chapel in Austin with Rev. Dr. Jimmy Reece officiating.   Burial will follow the service in Cook Walden/Forest Oaks Memorial Park.  

Mr. Priest passed away on Wednesday, October 11, 2006 in Jacksonville. 
 
He was born in Chambersville, Texas on July 27, 1916 to Floyd Hardaway & Alma Rivers Priest.  On August 1, 1938 he went to work for the City of Austin in the Engineering Department , he left the city of Austin on August 1, 1960 and opened his own office for the practice of Land Surveying.  He retired from the Surveying business in 1981.  

In 1939 he met Mary Tom Kendall and they later married and had three children; Joe, Sue and Emily.  

Mr. Priest was preceded in death by his wife; Mary Kendall Priest, his parents; Floyd and Alma Priest and a great-granddaughter; Lydia Milikien.  

He is survived by his son & daughter-in-law, Joe & Jeannie Priest of Dripping Springs; daughters & son-in-law, Sue Priest of Dallas and Emily Morrow and her husband Terry of Jacksonville; grandchildren, Rob Beall of Jacksonville, Allyson Milikien of Round Rock and Hunter Priest of Dripping Springs; and two great-grandchildren; sisters, Virginia Waite of Canyon Lake and Jean Kunitz of Sherman and several nieces & nephews.  

The family will receive visitors prior to the service from 10 A.M. until service time.  Family members will serve as pallbearers. Local  arrangements under the direction of Autry Funeral Home.

Information from Autry Funeral Home