ZEB DICKEY ALFORD, retired US Navy Captain, 84, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, the 4th of August 2009, the eve of his 25th wedding anniversary. Zeb suffered a heart attack the previous evening while playing tennis at his home causing him to fall back hard on his head. Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the afternoon until eight o'clock in the evening on Thursday, the 20th of August, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston. A funeral service will be conducted at ten o'clock in the morning on Friday the 21st of August, in the Sanctuary of Second Baptist Church, 6400 Woodway Drive in Houston, where Rev. Biff Johnson is to officiate. Interment, with full military honors, will take place at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date. In lieu of the usual remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions in Zeb's name be directed to the Cavalla Historical Foundation, 2504 Church Street, Galveston, TX, 77550 and to the March of Dimes, 3000 Wesleyan, Suite 100, Houston, TX, 77027. "Be strong and courageous. be not afraid; neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." [Joshua 1:9].
Published in Houston Chronicle on August 20, 2009
ZEB DICKEY ALFORD, retired US Navy Captain, 84, passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, the 4th of August 2009, the eve of his 25th wedding anniversary. Zeb suffered a heart attack the previous evening while playing tennis at his home causing him to fall back hard on his head. Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from five o'clock in the afternoon until eight o'clock in the evening on Thursday, the 20th of August, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston. A funeral service will be conducted at ten o'clock in the morning on Friday the 21st of August, in the Sanctuary of Second Baptist Church, 6400 Woodway Drive in Houston, where Rev. Biff Johnson is to officiate. Interment, with full military honors, will take place at Arlington National Cemetery at a later date. In lieu of the usual remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions in Zeb's name be directed to the Cavalla Historical Foundation, 2504 Church Street, Galveston, TX, 77550 and to the March of Dimes, 3000 Wesleyan, Suite 100, Houston, TX, 77027. "Be strong and courageous. be not afraid; neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest." [Joshua 1:9].
Published in Houston Chronicle on August 20, 2009
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