Palestine High School Alumni Association

06 / 19 / 1910  –  09 / 11 / 1999

Services for Jettie Evie Gibson Langston, 89, of Palestine, were at 10 A.M. today at Bailey & Foster Chapel with the Rev William Snidow Officiating. Burial was in the Fields Chapel Cemetery.

Mrs. Langston died, Saturday morning, September 11, 1999, at Lindale Healthcare Center, in Lindale.

She was born June 19, 1910 to Robert Levi and Leona Sarah Isabell Ferguson Gibson, in Anderson County. Mrs. Langston was a Homemaker and a member of the Norwood Heights Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and one sister.

Mrs. Langston is survived by her husband, O.B. Langston of Palestine; daughters, Jeanette Hennigan of College Station, Vanoy Moseley of Lindale, Elaine McManness of Fairfield, Pa., and Linda McKinnie of Tyler; sons, Delbert Langston of Bay City and Timothy Langston of Tyler; sisters, Emmie Chambers of Palestine and Leona Killion of Charleston, S.C.; 20 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Grady Stewart, Kevin Stewart, Dean Stewart, Karin Stewart, Timothy Langston and Gary Michael Stewart. Honorary pallbearer was Jon Hennigan.

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 09-12-1999