Eugene Vernon Ferguson

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Eugene "Gene" Ferguson, age 90, longtime resident of the Rosevine Community, passed from this life in the hours of Wednesday, March 1, 2017, in San Augustine, Texas.

Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 4, 2017, in the Rosevine United Pentecostal Church in Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas, with Bro. Glenn Morton, Bro. Gordon Simmons, and Bro. Steve Ferguson officiating. Burial will follow in the Rosevine Cemetery in Rosevine. Visitation will be Friday evening, March 3, 2017, from the hours of 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Wyman Roberts Funeral Home, 316 West Columbia Street, San Augustine, Texas 7592.

Gene was born to Reta (Ashby) Ferguson and James Calvin Ferguson on January 24, 1927, in Wright City, Oklahoma. He served in the United States Army during WWII. He was a member of the Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post #9313 in San Augustine, was retired from BTJ Pipeline Local Union 798, having traveled all across the United States working, and attended the Rosevine United Pentecostal Church.

Those who are left to cherish her memory include, His beloved wife, Myra Ferguson of Rosevine; children, Steve Ferguson and his wife, Tonah of Avinger; Larry Ferguson and his wife, Christina of Rosevine; Vicky Sublett and her husband, Phil of San Augustine; Helen Currie and her husband, Kirk of Spring; Rusty Ferguson and his wife, Julie of Orange; Patti Walker and her husband, Derek of Pineland and Randy Ferguson and his wife, Tami of Joaquin, and Daughter-in-law, Tina Ferguson-Adair; His beloved Sisters, Margaret Oliver of Rosevine; Adell Burch of Rosevine; Geraldine Weatherford of Rosevine; Edna Cook of Silsbee; Irene Oliver of Pollock and Myrtle Boyd of San Antonio.

He is preceded in death by his beloved son, Keith Dwayne Ferguson; his parents, Reta and James Ferguson

(Copied from his FindAGrave memorial page, also published in the Sabine County Reporter, March 8, 2017, page 8)

Eugene married Myra Mae "Miriam" Foley before 1950. Myra was born on 4 Oct 1932 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 15 Mar 2018 in Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Sabine County Reporter
July 26, 1995, Page 7

Keith Ferguson

Keith DeWayne Ferguson, 29, of Rosevine died at 1:50 a.m. Thursday, July 13, 1995, at Hermann Hospital in Houston following an accident.

Born Dec. 22, 1965, Ferguson was a lifelong resident of the Rosevine area and was employed as an electrician with Erected Steel Corp. He was a member of the United Pentecostal Church and a 4-H adult leader.

Survivors: wife, Tina K. (Hamilton) Ferguson of Rosevine; two children, Michael Bradley Ferguson and Robyn LeeAnn Ferguson, both of Rosevine; parents, Eugene V. Ferguson and Myra Mae (Foley) Ferguson of Rosevine; three sisters and their husbands, Vicky and Phil Sublett of San Augutine, Helen and Kird Currie of Spring, and Pattis and Randy Norwood of Pueblo, Colorado; four brothers and their wives, Steve and Tonah Ferguson and Rusty and Julie Ferguson, both of Beaumont, Larry and Christina Ferguson of Rosevine, and Randy and Tami Ferguson of Okinawa, Japan; parents-in-law of Mayor Robert and Frances Ferguson (sic, s/b Hamilton) of Hemphill; grandmother, Verdell Easley of Hemphill; brother-in-law and wife, Joe and Stacy Hamilton of Hemphill; sisters-in-law, Debra Hamilton of Hemphill and Shannon Minsquero and husband Tony of Houston; 16 nephews; three nieces; and one great-niece.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Rosevine United Pentecostal Church with the pastor, Bro. Charles R. Stephens, and Bro. Wendell Ferguson, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church, officiating. Interment followed at Rosevine Cemeter.

Pallbearers: Kenneth Ellison, Tony Fuller, Ronny Holmes, Bradley Byley, Brad Easley, Marty Griffin, Jamie Fuller, Scott Morrison, Ricky Oliver, James Womack, Kreah Currie, Harold Maxey, Rodney Davis, Ray Don Phillips, Barry Welch, and Joe Jones.

Services were handled by Starr Funeral Home Inc in Hemphill.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, May 2009)

Keith married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]