Extracted from local Bryan, TX newspaper
Saturday, August 24, 1985

Elton Lane Powers

Elton Lane Powers, 26, of Bryan died Friday in a Houston hospital.

Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Hillier Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Terry Teykl of Aldersgate United Methodist Church officiating. Masonic graveside services will be held afterward at the Steep Hollow Cemetery in Bryan.

Powers, who had lived in Brazos County most of his life, was a student at Texas A&M. He was a member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church in College Station and a member of the Cedar Creek Masonic Lodge No. 300 in Kurten.

Survivors include his wife, Kris Powers of Bryan; two daughters, Eslin Power [sic] and Tara Powers, both of Bryan; his sister, Lisa Jane West of Trinity; his parents, John Elton Powers of Wheelock and Mrs. Joe Sawyer of College Station; and his grandparents, John C. Powers and Ruth Powers of Bryan.