LIVINGSTON - A service to celebrate the life of Fred Lee Aylor was held on Saturday, April 19, 2003, in the Cochran Funeral Home Chapel in Livingston, with Dr. Don Willis officiating. Burial followed in Peebles Cemetery. Mr. Aylor, 93, died on Monday, April 14, in Presbyterian Village North in Dallas. He was the third child born to his parents, Fred Lee Aylor Sr. and Theresa Papst Aylor, in Orchard on Dec. 30, 1909. He was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Lettie Peebles Aylor; sister, Bertha Aylor Newman; three brothers, Howard, Walter and Leslie Aylor and one great-grandchild, Anthony David Abrahamson. Mr. Aylor worked most of his life in the Geophysical Department of Continental Oil Company. He joined its second field crew in November 1932 and retired in September 1973. Lettie, Fred and Marilyn, their only child, traveled over many states, but, because Lettie was a native of Livingston, it was "home" to them. They bought land and built two houses on Calhoun Street in Livingston, living here from 1948 until 1956 and from 1973 until 1996 when he moved to Dallas to be near his imme-diately family. Mr. Aylor was an active member of the First United Methodist Church in Livingston, serving as a greeter and usher, was a member of DMA and teacher of the Men's Bible Class for many years. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Marilyn Aylor Hodge and George Lowrance Hodge of Dallas; one sister and brother, Marjorie Aylor Hayes of Alvin and Albert Aylor of Pasadena; grandchildren, Kathryn Hodge Abrahamson and hus-band William G. Abrahamson of Dallas, Julia Hodge Macduff and husband Gordon Scott Macduff of Dallas, Gerald Lee Hodge and wife Christy Logan Hodge of Olathe, Kan. and Rosemary Hodge Wakely and husband Adam Cullen Wakely of Carrollton; and six great-grandchildren, James, Brandon and Emma Abrahamson, Jared and Carolyn Mcduff and Logan Hodge. Pallbearers were William Abrahamson, Steven Eppes, Gerald Lee Hodge, Scott Mcduff, James Peebles and Adam Wakely.