Palestine High School Alumni Association

00 / 00 / 189*  –  09 / 30 / 1983

Funeral services for J. U. “Shorty” Maffitt, 86, of Palestine will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Bailey Memorial Chapel, the Rev. Joe Routh officiating. Burial will be in the New Addition Cemetery.

Mr. Maffitt died Friday morning in the Palestine Nursing Center. He was born in Palestine, a son of C. S. Maffitt and Georgia Meaders Maffitt. After attending Austin College in Sherman and Rice Institute in Houston, he returned to Palestine to open Maffitt’s Man’s Shop.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Marjory Kingsbury Maffitt of Palestine; a daughter, Mrs. William J. (Marjory) Jones, of Stillwater, Oklahoma; sister, Mrs. J. G. Hardgraves of Palestine and two grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be John Logan, D Bell, Dana Pennybacker, Bob Marshman, Lawrence Selden, Spence Carnathan, Johnson Cone, Oscar Duff, Milford Graves, Bob Knight, Pascal Grizzle, Benson Davis and Harold Carnathan.

Condolence calls will be received at the Johnson Cone residence.

Source: Palestine Herald Press