Kenneth Wayne Crayton

Services for Kenneth Wayne Crayton, 53, of the Corinth Community in Bullard will be at 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 24, 2007, at Corinth Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Londa Davis officiating, under the direction of Community Funeral Home in Jacksonville.

Burial will be at the Corinth Missionary Baptist Church cemetery.

Mr. Crayton died Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007, in Bullard. He was born April 25, 1953, in Jacksonville. He attended Bullard Elementary and High School and was a life-time resident of Bullard and the Cherokee County area.

He was a shear operator at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. He was a member of Corinth Missionary Baptist Church and a member of the Corinth Cougars.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Dennis and Odessa Hackney-Crayton.

Survivors include his wife, Sally Williams-Crayton of Bullard; son, Andre’ Crayton of Tyler; Ashley Crayton of Bullard; two brothers, Dennis (Vera) Crayton of Jacksonville and Gary (Ernestine) Crayton of Tyler; five sisters, Ella Lois (Charles) Matthews of Dallas; Glenna Fay (Roy) Kelly of Houston; Nyoka Crayton-Mayes of Bullard; Janice (Devotie) Foggle of Fort Worth and Joyce Crayton of Houston; and three grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Larry D. Davis, Charles Thompkins, Charles Flournoy, Gerald Nelson, Cedric Hackney, James Hackney Jr., Jeffrey Kendrick and Melvin Whitaker.

Honorary pallbearers are the deacons of Corinth Missionary Baptist Church and Jimmy Hall.

Public viewing will be 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, at the funeral home. Mr. Crayton will lie in state at the church from noon to 1 p.m.
 

Information from the Jacksonville Daily Progress.