Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA) - Monday, May 27, 1991
Deceased Name: BANKSTON SR., CLAY A.
Died 9:25 a.m. Friday, May 24, 1991, at Lane Memorial Hospital. He was 80, a native of Amite, and resident of Central. He was a retired rural mail carrier with the U.S. Post Office with 29 years of service, and a U.S. Marine veteran. Visiting at Welsh Funeral Home, 9 a.m. until religious services at 11:30 a.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev. Milford Walters. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory. Survived by two daughters, Mary Ann Kofron, Richmond, Va., and Margaret Wascom, Central; a son, Clay A. Bankston Jr., Central; three sisters, Edith Stevens, Amite, Georgia Stauner, Brantwood, Wis., and Lula Mae Gurry, New Orleans; a brother, Woodrow W. Bankston, Orange, Texas; seven grandchildren, Amanda C. Bordelon, Washington, D.C., Richard K. Bordelon, Waynesboro, Va., Woodrow E. Wascom, Baton Rouge, Matthew A. Wascom, Howard C. Wascom, Ash-Leigh E. Bankston, and Jonathan Clay Bankston, all of Central. Preceded in death by wife, Bessie Morris Bankston; parents, Desire and Mary Statham Bankston; and a brother, Jeff C. Bankston. Pallbearers will be the grandsons and nephews. He was a member of Winbourne Avenue Baptist Church, and was a past officer in the Louisiana Rural Letter Carriers Association. Memorial donations may be made to the CancerSociety of Greater Baton Rouge, 650 Steele Blvd., Baton Rouge, 70806.
Deceased Name: BANKSTON SR., CLAY A.
Died 9:25 a.m. Friday, May 24, 1991, at Lane Memorial Hospital. He was 80, a native of Amite, and resident of Central. He was a retired rural mail carrier with the U.S. Post Office with 29 years of service, and a U.S. Marine veteran. Visiting at Welsh Funeral Home, 9 a.m. until religious services at 11:30 a.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev. Milford Walters. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory. Survived by two daughters, Mary Ann Kofron, Richmond, Va., and Margaret Wascom, Central; a son, Clay A. Bankston Jr., Central; three sisters, Edith Stevens, Amite, Georgia Stauner, Brantwood, Wis., and Lula Mae Gurry, New Orleans; a brother, Woodrow W. Bankston, Orange, Texas; seven grandchildren, Amanda C. Bordelon, Washington, D.C., Richard K. Bordelon, Waynesboro, Va., Woodrow E. Wascom, Baton Rouge, Matthew A. Wascom, Howard C. Wascom, Ash-Leigh E. Bankston, and Jonathan Clay Bankston, all of Central. Preceded in death by wife, Bessie Morris Bankston; parents, Desire and Mary Statham Bankston; and a brother, Jeff C. Bankston. Pallbearers will be the grandsons and nephews. He was a member of Winbourne Avenue Baptist Church, and was a past officer in the Louisiana Rural Letter Carriers Association. Memorial donations may be made to the CancerSociety of Greater Baton Rouge, 650 Steele Blvd., Baton Rouge, 70806.
Advocate, The (Baton Rouge, LA) - Monday, May 27, 1991
Deceased Name: BANKSTON SR., CLAY A.
Died 9:25 a.m. Friday, May 24, 1991, at Lane Memorial Hospital. He was 80, a native of Amite, and resident of Central. He was a retired rural mail carrier with the U.S. Post Office with 29 years of service, and a U.S. Marine veteran. Visiting at Welsh Funeral Home, 9 a.m. until religious services at 11:30 a.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev. Milford Walters. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory. Survived by two daughters, Mary Ann Kofron, Richmond, Va., and Margaret Wascom, Central; a son, Clay A. Bankston Jr., Central; three sisters, Edith Stevens, Amite, Georgia Stauner, Brantwood, Wis., and Lula Mae Gurry, New Orleans; a brother, Woodrow W. Bankston, Orange, Texas; seven grandchildren, Amanda C. Bordelon, Washington, D.C., Richard K. Bordelon, Waynesboro, Va., Woodrow E. Wascom, Baton Rouge, Matthew A. Wascom, Howard C. Wascom, Ash-Leigh E. Bankston, and Jonathan Clay Bankston, all of Central. Preceded in death by wife, Bessie Morris Bankston; parents, Desire and Mary Statham Bankston; and a brother, Jeff C. Bankston. Pallbearers will be the grandsons and nephews. He was a member of Winbourne Avenue Baptist Church, and was a past officer in the Louisiana Rural Letter Carriers Association. Memorial donations may be made to the CancerSociety of Greater Baton Rouge, 650 Steele Blvd., Baton Rouge, 70806.
Deceased Name: BANKSTON SR., CLAY A.
Died 9:25 a.m. Friday, May 24, 1991, at Lane Memorial Hospital. He was 80, a native of Amite, and resident of Central. He was a retired rural mail carrier with the U.S. Post Office with 29 years of service, and a U.S. Marine veteran. Visiting at Welsh Funeral Home, 9 a.m. until religious services at 11:30 a.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev. Milford Walters. Burial in Resthaven Gardens of Memory. Survived by two daughters, Mary Ann Kofron, Richmond, Va., and Margaret Wascom, Central; a son, Clay A. Bankston Jr., Central; three sisters, Edith Stevens, Amite, Georgia Stauner, Brantwood, Wis., and Lula Mae Gurry, New Orleans; a brother, Woodrow W. Bankston, Orange, Texas; seven grandchildren, Amanda C. Bordelon, Washington, D.C., Richard K. Bordelon, Waynesboro, Va., Woodrow E. Wascom, Baton Rouge, Matthew A. Wascom, Howard C. Wascom, Ash-Leigh E. Bankston, and Jonathan Clay Bankston, all of Central. Preceded in death by wife, Bessie Morris Bankston; parents, Desire and Mary Statham Bankston; and a brother, Jeff C. Bankston. Pallbearers will be the grandsons and nephews. He was a member of Winbourne Avenue Baptist Church, and was a past officer in the Louisiana Rural Letter Carriers Association. Memorial donations may be made to the CancerSociety of Greater Baton Rouge, 650 Steele Blvd., Baton Rouge, 70806.
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Clay Alonzo Bankston
Oct. 12, 1910
May 24, 1991
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