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Leslie Carlton Pridgeon

Male 1921 - 1995  (73 years)


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  1. 1.  Leslie Carlton Pridgeon was born on 10 Dec 1921 in Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas; died on 16 Apr 1995 in Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas; was buried on 19 Apr 1995 in Cochran Cemetery, Angelina County, Texas.

    Notes:

    The Sabine County Reporter
    April 26, 1995, Page 12

    Rev. Leslie Pridgeon

    Rev. Leslie Pridgeon, 73, of Zavalla died Sunday, April 16, 1995, at Memorial Medical Center of East Texas in Lufkin.

    Rev. Pridgeon was a native of Gilmer and had lived in Zavalla eight years. he was a retired director of Child Evangelism Fellowship.

    Surivivors: wife, Wanda Pridgeon of Zavalla; a son; a daughter; two brothers; and a sister.

    Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Lakewood Baptist Church near Zavalla. Interment followed at the Cochran Cemetery.

    Services were handled by Riley Funeral Home in Woodville.

    (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, April 2009)

    The Military Marker on his Find a Grave page shows he was a Sgt US Army World War II

    Family Search shows him as a son of James Alonzo Pridgeon and Alice Josephine Beasley.

    Leslie married Wanda Faye Smith before 1957. Wanda was born on 11 Nov 1936 in Pecan Gap, Delta County, Texas; died on 7 Mar 2011 in Huntington, Angelina County, Texas; was buried on 10 Mar 2011 in Cochran Cemetery, Angelina County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. Living
    2. Leslie David Pridgeon was born on 25 Sep 1962 in Tarrant County, Texas; died on 14 Jun 1974 in Parker County, Texas.
    3. Living

Generation: 2