HUNTSVILLE TIMES

Friday, January 31, 1941

 

Edward Buford Dies At Home

Funeral Services Tomorrow At Merrimack Baptist Church

 

Edward D. BUFORD, 70, died at 3:30 o’clock this morning at his residence, 141 Pike Street.  Funeral Service will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock from the Merrimack Baptist Church. The Revs. C. E. CALVERT and Morris LAND will officiate.  Burial will be in the Neals Chapel Cemetery with Laughlin-Service in charge.

 

Active pallbearers will be C. M. BUFORD, Milas BUFORD, Jr., Marvin BUFORD, Odell BUFORD and Lloyd SMITH.  Honorary pallbearers will be Gordon HUNT, Will ESSLINGER, Frank GEIGER, George BETRUS, Claude ANDERSON, Hosea WATSON, Spurgeon HENDRICKS, Buford WILKES, Dell ALLEN, Lowe OLDFIELD, Sam RAINEY, W. D. CHURCH, Eugene RIGGINS, Dr. J. E. WHITAKER, Milton TATE and Charles LYONS.

 

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Theobia Baker BUFORD; two daughters, Miss Opheila BAKER and Mrs. George MEADOWS; three sons, Jesse BUFORD of Opp, Ala., and Bud BUFORD and Aubrey BUFORD, Merrimack; one sister, Mrs. Emma FEARS of Chicago; three brothers, C. W. BUFORD and M. J. BUFORD, Owens Cross Roads, and S. F. BUFORD, Hazel Green, and eight grandchildren.

 

Mr. Buford was a member of the Merrimack Baptist Church.