ELNORA COLSTON

 

Funeral for Elnora Colston, 87, of the Shady Grove community was at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Woodville CME Church with the Rev. Joe Radford, Elder Phal Carter and the Rev. W.D. Brown officiating. Burial was in Woodville Cemetery.

Mrs. Colston died Dec. 30, 2008. She was born Oct. 5, 1921, in Rusk.

She was a George W. Bradford High School graduate, a housewife, member of the Woodville CME Church and the Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors are a son and daughter-in-law, Charlie and Sharon Colston of Dallas; two daughters and a son-in-law, Helen Boston and Evelyn and the Rev. Vandell Smith, all of Longville; three sisters and a brother-in-law, Vester Richards, Lila M. Colston and Elsie and George Colston, all of Rusk; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Ray Boston II, Derek Smith, Dewayne Colston, Darwin Stewart Williams and Scott Smith.

Honorary pallbearers were Melvin Session, William Fuller, Ray Boston, Travis Session, Cornell Session and J.D. Griffith. Williams Funeral Home was in charge.

Information from The Rusk Cherokeean