Bostick Rites Are Held Here Saturday
Funeral rites for William Floyd (Bill) Bostick, 72-year-old retired cotton ginner an cotton oil mill operator, were held at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Newberry Funeral Chapel.
Rev. Truett White, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, officiated and burial was in the Childress Cemetery.
Pallbeares [sic] were L.D. Portwood Jr., Robert Portwood, Gary Furr, J.A. Furr, Curtis Bostick and Dan Forlines, all nephews.
Mr. Bostick was a member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock.
He died at 11:45 p.m. Thursday in a local nursing home.
He was born in Erath County and came to Childress County as a child, worked in the cotton gin at Carey for several years, moved to Lubbock in 1951 to work in a cotton oil mill and moved here in January of this year.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Pat Coldsmith of San Angelo; three sons, O.W. of Vallejo, Calif., T.V. of Amarillo and John L. of Cokedale, Colo.; four sisters, Mrs. L.D. Portwood Sr., of Childress, Mrs. Frances Hill of Fresno, Calif., Mrs. W.T. Blair and Mrs. C.M. Blair, both of Gardena, Calif.; three brothers, R.W. of Roswell, N.M., J.L. of Lakeport, Calif., and Edgar of Lometa, Calif.; 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Childress Index, Childress, Texas · Sunday, December 23, 1973, Page 1)
Bostick Rites Are Held Here Saturday
Funeral rites for William Floyd (Bill) Bostick, 72-year-old retired cotton ginner an cotton oil mill operator, were held at 4 p.m. Saturday in the Newberry Funeral Chapel.
Rev. Truett White, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, officiated and burial was in the Childress Cemetery.
Pallbeares [sic] were L.D. Portwood Jr., Robert Portwood, Gary Furr, J.A. Furr, Curtis Bostick and Dan Forlines, all nephews.
Mr. Bostick was a member of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock.
He died at 11:45 p.m. Thursday in a local nursing home.
He was born in Erath County and came to Childress County as a child, worked in the cotton gin at Carey for several years, moved to Lubbock in 1951 to work in a cotton oil mill and moved here in January of this year.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Pat Coldsmith of San Angelo; three sons, O.W. of Vallejo, Calif., T.V. of Amarillo and John L. of Cokedale, Colo.; four sisters, Mrs. L.D. Portwood Sr., of Childress, Mrs. Frances Hill of Fresno, Calif., Mrs. W.T. Blair and Mrs. C.M. Blair, both of Gardena, Calif.; three brothers, R.W. of Roswell, N.M., J.L. of Lakeport, Calif., and Edgar of Lometa, Calif.; 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Childress Index, Childress, Texas · Sunday, December 23, 1973, Page 1)
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