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William Garfield Durst

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William Garfield Durst

Birth
Leon, Mason County, West Virginia, USA
Death
5 Jul 1967 (aged 86)
Gallipolis, Gallia County, Ohio, USA
Burial
Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia, USA Add to Map
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William G. Durst,
Ex-Point Pleasant
Councilman, Dies

POINT PLEASANT - A former city councilman here for 35 years died Wednesday in Holzer Hospital, Gallipolis, Ohio.

William G. Durst, 86, of Clifton, was a retired carpenter and contractor. Mr. Durst was a former resident of Point Pleasant, where he also had served as street commissioner and fire chief. He was born Sept. 26, 1880, at Leon, a son of Henry and Elizabeth Stone Durst. His wife, Mrs. Lena Oliver Durst, died in 1958.

Survivors: daughters, Mrs. Edith Fox of Clifton, with whom he resided the past seven years, Miss Daisy Durst and Mrs. Mildred Woomer of Point Pleasant; sons, William Earl, Frank, and Clifford of Point Pleasant; sisters, Mrs. Zell Hartley and Mrs. Bertha Schwartz of Point Pleasant; brothers, Charles, Dana, Barto and Wallie of Point Pleasant, Harry and Jasper of Middleport, Ohio.

Service will be conducted Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Crow-Hussell Funeral Home by the Rev. James Morrison and the Rev. Frank Cheesebrew. Burial will be in Lone Oak Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home today after 7 p.m.

Charleston Daily Mail
July 6, 1967.

William G. Durst,
Ex-Point Pleasant
Councilman, Dies

POINT PLEASANT - A former city councilman here for 35 years died Wednesday in Holzer Hospital, Gallipolis, Ohio.

William G. Durst, 86, of Clifton, was a retired carpenter and contractor. Mr. Durst was a former resident of Point Pleasant, where he also had served as street commissioner and fire chief. He was born Sept. 26, 1880, at Leon, a son of Henry and Elizabeth Stone Durst. His wife, Mrs. Lena Oliver Durst, died in 1958.

Survivors: daughters, Mrs. Edith Fox of Clifton, with whom he resided the past seven years, Miss Daisy Durst and Mrs. Mildred Woomer of Point Pleasant; sons, William Earl, Frank, and Clifford of Point Pleasant; sisters, Mrs. Zell Hartley and Mrs. Bertha Schwartz of Point Pleasant; brothers, Charles, Dana, Barto and Wallie of Point Pleasant, Harry and Jasper of Middleport, Ohio.

Service will be conducted Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Crow-Hussell Funeral Home by the Rev. James Morrison and the Rev. Frank Cheesebrew. Burial will be in Lone Oak Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home today after 7 p.m.

Charleston Daily Mail
July 6, 1967.

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DURST

WILLIAM G.
1880 - 1967

Great Uncle William Garfield Darst was buried as "Durst"

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