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Sterling Avants

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Sterling Avants

Birth
Johnson County, Texas, USA
Death
5 Jul 1972 (aged 90)
Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas, USA
Burial
Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Sterling Avants
Services Held

Funeral Services were held Friday, 10 a.m. at the Church of Christ for Sterling Avants who died July 5 at Leisure Lodge.

Bud Hales was the officiating minister and arrangements were with Hawkins Funeral Home. Burial was in Post Oak Cemetery.

Pal bearers were W.A. Cook, Raymond Bowen, John Berry, Harold West, Robert Peterson and Ben Johnson.

Sterling Avants was born June 30, 1882 in Johnson County, the son of John Stone and Sarah Ann Rich Avants.

He was married Feb. 21, 1950 at Bryson to Emma Denning.

A retired farmer, he moved here from Bryson 13 years ago.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Emma Avants of Jacksboro; two daughters, Mrs. Gerald Eubanks and Mrs. Charles H. Conner, three sons, Harold Avants of Beaumont, Owen Avants of Fort Worth, Grady Avants of Avoca; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Jimmie Freeman of Ivanhoe.
Sterling Avants
Services Held

Funeral Services were held Friday, 10 a.m. at the Church of Christ for Sterling Avants who died July 5 at Leisure Lodge.

Bud Hales was the officiating minister and arrangements were with Hawkins Funeral Home. Burial was in Post Oak Cemetery.

Pal bearers were W.A. Cook, Raymond Bowen, John Berry, Harold West, Robert Peterson and Ben Johnson.

Sterling Avants was born June 30, 1882 in Johnson County, the son of John Stone and Sarah Ann Rich Avants.

He was married Feb. 21, 1950 at Bryson to Emma Denning.

A retired farmer, he moved here from Bryson 13 years ago.

Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Emma Avants of Jacksboro; two daughters, Mrs. Gerald Eubanks and Mrs. Charles H. Conner, three sons, Harold Avants of Beaumont, Owen Avants of Fort Worth, Grady Avants of Avoca; nine grandchildren and four great grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Jimmie Freeman of Ivanhoe.


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