Funeral services for Logan Hudgens Birdsong, 49, native Pulaskian, were held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Fort Walton, Fla., his place of residence for the past nine years. A prayer services was held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in the chapel of Bennett-May Funeral Home in Pulaski and burial followed in the family lot in Maplewood Cemetery with the Rev. Sam R. Dodson, Jr., officiating. Mr. Birdsong died unexpectedly.
The son of Neil Colston Birdsong and Mrs. Mattie Harwell Birdsong of Pulaski, he was born August 9, 1904, was graduated from Massey Military School in Pulaski and attended University of Tennessee. He lived in Panama thirteen years, first as a construction company employee and later as a Civil Service employee in the transportation department. Returning to the States in 1941, he worked successively at Dayton, Ohio and Mobile, Ala., locating in Fort Walton with Gulf State Life Insurance Company.
He was an active member of the Methodist Church and president of the Methodist Men's Club.
In addition to his parents, M. Birdsong is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elsie Schildt Birdsong; one daughter, Miss Shirley Louise Birdsong; one son, Logan Hudgens Birdsong, Jr., all of Fort Walton; and one sister, Mrs. Willie E. Winstead, Pulaski. Bennett-May and Company, Morticians in charge.
Funeral services for Logan Hudgens Birdsong, 49, native Pulaskian, were held at 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in Fort Walton, Fla., his place of residence for the past nine years. A prayer services was held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon in the chapel of Bennett-May Funeral Home in Pulaski and burial followed in the family lot in Maplewood Cemetery with the Rev. Sam R. Dodson, Jr., officiating. Mr. Birdsong died unexpectedly.
The son of Neil Colston Birdsong and Mrs. Mattie Harwell Birdsong of Pulaski, he was born August 9, 1904, was graduated from Massey Military School in Pulaski and attended University of Tennessee. He lived in Panama thirteen years, first as a construction company employee and later as a Civil Service employee in the transportation department. Returning to the States in 1941, he worked successively at Dayton, Ohio and Mobile, Ala., locating in Fort Walton with Gulf State Life Insurance Company.
He was an active member of the Methodist Church and president of the Methodist Men's Club.
In addition to his parents, M. Birdsong is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elsie Schildt Birdsong; one daughter, Miss Shirley Louise Birdsong; one son, Logan Hudgens Birdsong, Jr., all of Fort Walton; and one sister, Mrs. Willie E. Winstead, Pulaski. Bennett-May and Company, Morticians in charge.
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