Palestine High School Alumni Association

Edwin Hunter Dietz 1947

09 / 30 / 1928  –  02 / 04 / 1994

Services for Edwin Hunter Dietz, 62 of Palestine will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Bailey & Foster Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles R. Kincaid officiating. Burial will be in Tennessee Colony Cemetery.

Mr. Dietz died Monday at his home.

He and his surviving twin brother, Eugene Milton Dietz, were born September 30, 1928 in Palestine to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hugo Dietz.

He was a life-long member of the First Christian Church of Palestine, where he was a deacon. Dietz joined the Palestine Masonic Lodge No. 31 in 1953 and was a 32nd Degree Mason. He also was a member of the Scottish Rite.

Dietz graduated from Palestine High School and attended Sam Houston State University in Huntsville. He worked for Hunt Oil Co. in Palestine before moving to Tyler where he was employment supervisor and safety director for Kelly Springfield Tire Co. He worked as a personnel manager for U.S. Brass Co., Wind Industries and Morse Industries in Plano and Dallas. His most recent employment was with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice – Institutional Division, Beto I, in Tennessee Colony.

While living in Tyler, he was an elder of Ross Avenue Christian Church.

Mr. Dietz is survived by his wife, Marilyn Keeling Dietz of Palestine; sons, Edwin Hunter Dietz Jr., of Arlington and Bryan Eugene Dietz of Irving; a daughter, Denise Starcher of Irving; brothers, Eugene Milton Dietz and Harold Lester Dietz, both of Palestine; a sister, Rosemary Dietz Tittle of Odessa; and a grandson.

Pallbearers will be W. A. Handorf, Gerald Rose, Robert Williamson, Jesse George, Robert Pierce, Paul Glenn Tittle Jr., H. Les Dietz and Don Hodges.

Condolence calls will be received from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Hospice of East Texas, or to the American Cancer Society, P. O. Box 823, Palestine, Texas 75802

Source: Palestine Herald-Press 02-05-1991