Elwin was the first of nine children born to William Southard (1891-1978) and Flossie Maize Hite (1893-1968) in Dallas County, Missiouri. His parents moved from Missiouri around 1916 to Roberts County, Texas. He married Gula Fay Claterbaugh (1912-1994) and the couple had two daughters. Elwin died at the age of 78 having been preceded in death by his parents and his sister Dorothy Ann Southard Briley (1916-1971). His wife, two daughters, four brothers and three sisters survive him.

Services: 2:00 P.M. Thursday,
February 7, 1991
Charmichael-Whatley Colonial Chapel
Officiating Dr. Darrel Rains

Music: Organist, Jerry Whitten
Soloist, Susanne Rains


Bearers: Stephen Wilson Bret Bell
Dale Greenhouse Bill Gething
Keith Nix Roy Graves

INTERNENT
Fairview Cemetery


A Time for Everything
There is an appointed time for everything.
And there is a time for every event under heaven—

A time to give birth and a time to die;
A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.

A time to kill and a time to heal;
A time to tear down and a time to build up.

A time to weep and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn and a time to dance.

A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.

A time to search and a time to give up as lost;
A time to keep and a time to throw away.

A time to tear apart and a time to sew together;
A time to be silent and a time to speak.

I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-7, 10, 11