From the Dresden Enterprise
Services Tuesday
For Well-Known
Business Man
Loyd L. Reavis Sr., a member of E.T. Reavis & Son, Dresden's oldest business firm, passed away at ten fifty o'clock Sunday night at his home on East Main Street.
Mr. Reavis had been in failing health 13 years and seriously ill two years. He was born and reared in Dresden, the son of E.T. Reavis and the late Mrs. Bennie Loyd Reavis of Dresden.
He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and formerly served on the board of aldermen. He was 61 years old.
Services were conducted at three o'clock Tuesday at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Forrest Prosser, pastor, assisted by the Rev. D.K. Richardson of Dyer, the Rev. Jolley Freeman of Munford, former pastors, and Reeder Oldham, minister of the Dresden Church of Christ. Burial was in Sunset Cemetery under the direction of Bowlin and Riggs Mortuary.
He leaves his wife, the former Miss Marguerite Callen of Selma, Alabama, whom he married in 1921; one son, Loyd Reavis Jr.; his father, E.T. Reavis; and three grandchildren, Martha Lee, Carol, and Thomas Loyd Reavis, all of Dresden.
Pallbearers were : M.R. Duke, A.J. Dunlap, Harold Bradberry, Snoda Parham, Thomas Campbell, and Jack Freeman.
Services Tuesday
For Well-Known
Business Man
Loyd L. Reavis Sr., a member of E.T. Reavis & Son, Dresden's oldest business firm, passed away at ten fifty o'clock Sunday night at his home on East Main Street.
Mr. Reavis had been in failing health 13 years and seriously ill two years. He was born and reared in Dresden, the son of E.T. Reavis and the late Mrs. Bennie Loyd Reavis of Dresden.
He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and formerly served on the board of aldermen. He was 61 years old.
Services were conducted at three o'clock Tuesday at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Forrest Prosser, pastor, assisted by the Rev. D.K. Richardson of Dyer, the Rev. Jolley Freeman of Munford, former pastors, and Reeder Oldham, minister of the Dresden Church of Christ. Burial was in Sunset Cemetery under the direction of Bowlin and Riggs Mortuary.
He leaves his wife, the former Miss Marguerite Callen of Selma, Alabama, whom he married in 1921; one son, Loyd Reavis Jr.; his father, E.T. Reavis; and three grandchildren, Martha Lee, Carol, and Thomas Loyd Reavis, all of Dresden.
Pallbearers were : M.R. Duke, A.J. Dunlap, Harold Bradberry, Snoda Parham, Thomas Campbell, and Jack Freeman.
From the Dresden Enterprise
Services Tuesday
For Well-Known
Business Man
Loyd L. Reavis Sr., a member of E.T. Reavis & Son, Dresden's oldest business firm, passed away at ten fifty o'clock Sunday night at his home on East Main Street.
Mr. Reavis had been in failing health 13 years and seriously ill two years. He was born and reared in Dresden, the son of E.T. Reavis and the late Mrs. Bennie Loyd Reavis of Dresden.
He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and formerly served on the board of aldermen. He was 61 years old.
Services were conducted at three o'clock Tuesday at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Forrest Prosser, pastor, assisted by the Rev. D.K. Richardson of Dyer, the Rev. Jolley Freeman of Munford, former pastors, and Reeder Oldham, minister of the Dresden Church of Christ. Burial was in Sunset Cemetery under the direction of Bowlin and Riggs Mortuary.
He leaves his wife, the former Miss Marguerite Callen of Selma, Alabama, whom he married in 1921; one son, Loyd Reavis Jr.; his father, E.T. Reavis; and three grandchildren, Martha Lee, Carol, and Thomas Loyd Reavis, all of Dresden.
Pallbearers were : M.R. Duke, A.J. Dunlap, Harold Bradberry, Snoda Parham, Thomas Campbell, and Jack Freeman.
Services Tuesday
For Well-Known
Business Man
Loyd L. Reavis Sr., a member of E.T. Reavis & Son, Dresden's oldest business firm, passed away at ten fifty o'clock Sunday night at his home on East Main Street.
Mr. Reavis had been in failing health 13 years and seriously ill two years. He was born and reared in Dresden, the son of E.T. Reavis and the late Mrs. Bennie Loyd Reavis of Dresden.
He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and formerly served on the board of aldermen. He was 61 years old.
Services were conducted at three o'clock Tuesday at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Forrest Prosser, pastor, assisted by the Rev. D.K. Richardson of Dyer, the Rev. Jolley Freeman of Munford, former pastors, and Reeder Oldham, minister of the Dresden Church of Christ. Burial was in Sunset Cemetery under the direction of Bowlin and Riggs Mortuary.
He leaves his wife, the former Miss Marguerite Callen of Selma, Alabama, whom he married in 1921; one son, Loyd Reavis Jr.; his father, E.T. Reavis; and three grandchildren, Martha Lee, Carol, and Thomas Loyd Reavis, all of Dresden.
Pallbearers were : M.R. Duke, A.J. Dunlap, Harold Bradberry, Snoda Parham, Thomas Campbell, and Jack Freeman.
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