Athens North Cemetery (Black)
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From the Courthouse house
in Athens Texas, take Highway 19 North towards Canton. Go
appromiately 1 to 1 1/2 miles. Turn right on Edmondson Street. Go
down approximately 1 1/2 block. Cemetery is located on the left
hand side of road.
Anderson, Jimmie
b. Sept 26,1919 d. Oct 12,1998
S/O Wade and Hannah Wofford Anderson
U. S. Army |
Andrews, Alfonzie
b. Sept 08,1929 d. Jan 24,2000
S/O Valree and Arlene Thompson Andrews |
Barker, Eva M
b. Oct 10,1908 d. July 20 2002
D/O John and Lena Wilson Richardson |
Basher, Eric
b. July 10,1984 d. Sept 13,2000
S/O Oran Basher and Bertha Ray Dewberry |
Beasley, Doris Rozell
b. Sept 03,1930 d. Nov 27,1999
D/O Arthur and Easter Hallman Wirdlow |
Beasley, Horace Oncil
b. May 28,1928 d. Jan 25,1999
S/O Maggie and Tommy Beasley Sr. |
Bell Mary R
b. July 10,1909 d. Oct 13,2000
D/O Charles and Annie Smith Randles |
Braxton, Sherri Diann
b. May 29,1969 d. June 11,2002
D/O Mary F Sims and James Braxton |
Chancellor, Danna Jean
b. Sept 17,1957 d. Aug 27,2000
D/O Neal and Nellie Mae Sessions Chancellor |
Davis, Oleta Barker Johnson
b. May 08,1935 d. Aug 29,1998
D/O Marion and Madern McAdoo Edmondson Barker |
Johnson, Lillie Mae
b. Jan 17,1921 d. Aug 12,2000
D/O Eli and Annie Alice Gaston Scruggs |
Sims, Olevia
b. Feb 09,1918 d. Feb 25,1999
D/O Jeffe and Frances Allen Carr Lucas |
Sims, Tony
b. Oct 03, 1948 d.Jan 19, 2001
S/O Eugene Sr and Olevia Lucas Sims |
Wilson, Harold
b. Oct 29 1927 d. July 16,2002
S/O Ernest and Frankie B Wilson |
Information submitted by
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Roberts |
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Killed in the line of duty while
at the Houston Police Dept.
Officer Harold Lloyd Preston was born in
Athens, Texas in 1955. Sometime later, the Preston family moved to Houston,
where he was a student at Jack Yates High
School. After
his 1973 graduation, Harold attended Texas Southern University, graduating
in 1978. A year later, he joined the Houston Police Force's class #86.
Harold was a 41-year veteran of HPD.
On October 20, 2020, police were called to the scene by a woman who
had been locked out of her apartment by her estranged husband and was
attempting to retrieve belongings. Other officers had been to the apartment
two additional times in the preceding days for domestic disturbance calls.
Sergeant Preston and the other officer spoke to the woman for approximately
an hour before her 14-year-old son managed to unlock the apartment door and
encountered his father holding a gun.
The man then opened fire, striking Sergeant Preston numerous times
in the head and upper body. The other officer and juvenile were also
wounded. The man surrendered approximately one hour later.
Sergeant Preston had served with the Houston Police Department for
41 years and was scheduled to retire in the coming weeks. He was survived by
his elderly parents, whom he cared for, and fiancée.
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