Palestine High School Alumni Association

05 / 16 / 1920  –  03 / 06 / 2002

Services for Kenneth Lee Alford, Sr., 81, of Palestine, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at Bailey & Foster Chapel with Dr. Tom Rousseau officiating.  Burial will follow in Land of Memory.

Mr. Alford died Wednesday at the VA hospital in Marlin.  He was born May 16, 1920 in Edgerly, LA to Benjamin Harrison Lee Alford and Lavada Ethel Leach Alford.  Mr. Alford retired after 20 years as a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Air force.  He was a member of the First Christian Churcy.  He graduated from Palestine High School in 1936.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Essie Burks Alford; Loretta Patton and Ruba Mae Schattel.

He is survived by Patricia Evans of Palestine; son, Kenneth Lee Alford, Jr. of Bellaire; sister, Lavada Apodaca of Pasadena; brothers, Elmer Earl Alford and W.P. Alford, both of Palestine; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Pallbearers will be George Lee Patton, Larry Schattel, Jimmy Alford, Montee Poole, Calvin Patton, Dennis Ellison and Calvin Nichols.

Honorary pallbearers will be Gary Schattel, Randy Apodaca and Rusty Droby.

Condolence cals will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.