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When I (Liz Bearden Smith) asked family about Uncle Frank, the only responses were "He was a fat man that rolled his own cigarettes." I later learned he and Aunt Willie lived at 104 West Baker St. in Athens. He must have moved to be closer to his daughter in Houston after Aunt Willie died in 1960. From his death certificate - he had been a guard on a prison farm during his life. He was currently living in Precinct # 3 in Crosby, Harris County, Texas. He was D.O.A. at the Tidelands Hospital in Channelview, Harris County, Texas and an inquest was held. Cause of death: Congestive Heart Failure, due to arteriosclerotic heart disease.
Obit from Athens Daily Review, Jan 13, 1962
Final Rites for Frank Avant Here Sunday
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. for B. F. (Frank) Avant, 72, who died suddenly Thursday afternoon in a Houston hospital.
Services will be held in Carroll and Lehr Memory Chapel with the Rev. Gordon Alexander officiating, and burial will be in Red Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Avant was a resident of Athens, and his wife died here in September 1960.
Survivors are a son, Freeman Lee Avant of Albuquerque, N.M.; one daughter, Mrs. T. H. Head of Houston, and a sister, Mrs. Lena Jepson of the Baxter community. END∼Frank is listed in a circa 1970 survey but unable to find marker. That listing had him as B. Frank Hampton. That Find-a-Grave memorial has now been merged into this one. (Nov 15, 2022)
When I (Liz Bearden Smith) asked family about Uncle Frank, the only responses were "He was a fat man that rolled his own cigarettes." I later learned he and Aunt Willie lived at 104 West Baker St. in Athens. He must have moved to be closer to his daughter in Houston after Aunt Willie died in 1960. From his death certificate - he had been a guard on a prison farm during his life. He was currently living in Precinct # 3 in Crosby, Harris County, Texas. He was D.O.A. at the Tidelands Hospital in Channelview, Harris County, Texas and an inquest was held. Cause of death: Congestive Heart Failure, due to arteriosclerotic heart disease.
Obit from Athens Daily Review, Jan 13, 1962
Final Rites for Frank Avant Here Sunday
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. for B. F. (Frank) Avant, 72, who died suddenly Thursday afternoon in a Houston hospital.
Services will be held in Carroll and Lehr Memory Chapel with the Rev. Gordon Alexander officiating, and burial will be in Red Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Avant was a resident of Athens, and his wife died here in September 1960.
Survivors are a son, Freeman Lee Avant of Albuquerque, N.M.; one daughter, Mrs. T. H. Head of Houston, and a sister, Mrs. Lena Jepson of the Baxter community. END∼Frank is listed in a circa 1970 survey but unable to find marker. That listing had him as B. Frank Hampton. That Find-a-Grave memorial has now been merged into this one. (Nov 15, 2022)
Parental links, names provided by LeAnne Amox Goudeau
When I (Liz Bearden Smith) asked family about Uncle Frank, the only responses were "He was a fat man that rolled his own cigarettes." I later learned he and Aunt Willie lived at 104 West Baker St. in Athens. He must have moved to be closer to his daughter in Houston after Aunt Willie died in 1960. From his death certificate - he had been a guard on a prison farm during his life. He was currently living in Precinct # 3 in Crosby, Harris County, Texas. He was D.O.A. at the Tidelands Hospital in Channelview, Harris County, Texas and an inquest was held. Cause of death: Congestive Heart Failure, due to arteriosclerotic heart disease.
Obit from Athens Daily Review, Jan 13, 1962
Final Rites for Frank Avant Here Sunday
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. for B. F. (Frank) Avant, 72, who died suddenly Thursday afternoon in a Houston hospital.
Services will be held in Carroll and Lehr Memory Chapel with the Rev. Gordon Alexander officiating, and burial will be in Red Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Avant was a resident of Athens, and his wife died here in September 1960.
Survivors are a son, Freeman Lee Avant of Albuquerque, N.M.; one daughter, Mrs. T. H. Head of Houston, and a sister, Mrs. Lena Jepson of the Baxter community. END∼Frank is listed in a circa 1970 survey but unable to find marker. That listing had him as B. Frank Hampton. That Find-a-Grave memorial has now been merged into this one. (Nov 15, 2022)
When I (Liz Bearden Smith) asked family about Uncle Frank, the only responses were "He was a fat man that rolled his own cigarettes." I later learned he and Aunt Willie lived at 104 West Baker St. in Athens. He must have moved to be closer to his daughter in Houston after Aunt Willie died in 1960. From his death certificate - he had been a guard on a prison farm during his life. He was currently living in Precinct # 3 in Crosby, Harris County, Texas. He was D.O.A. at the Tidelands Hospital in Channelview, Harris County, Texas and an inquest was held. Cause of death: Congestive Heart Failure, due to arteriosclerotic heart disease.
Obit from Athens Daily Review, Jan 13, 1962
Final Rites for Frank Avant Here Sunday
Funeral services will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. for B. F. (Frank) Avant, 72, who died suddenly Thursday afternoon in a Houston hospital.
Services will be held in Carroll and Lehr Memory Chapel with the Rev. Gordon Alexander officiating, and burial will be in Red Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Avant was a resident of Athens, and his wife died here in September 1960.
Survivors are a son, Freeman Lee Avant of Albuquerque, N.M.; one daughter, Mrs. T. H. Head of Houston, and a sister, Mrs. Lena Jepson of the Baxter community. END∼Frank is listed in a circa 1970 survey but unable to find marker. That listing had him as B. Frank Hampton. That Find-a-Grave memorial has now been merged into this one. (Nov 15, 2022)
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