Extracted from The Mobile Register (Mobile, AL)
Friday, May 18, 1973

AUSTIN

Mr. Fred Elbert Austin -- A native of Columbia, La., a resident of Mobile for the last 31 years, died at a local hospital Thursday, May 17, 1973, at 5:10 a.m.

He is survived bx [sic by] his wife, Mrs. Gussie Austin, Mobile; two daughters, Mrs. Harold D. (Betty) Livingston and Mrs. Joseph Edward (Carmen) Johnson, both of Mobile; two sisters, Mrs. L. V. (Mae) Codey, Jackson, Miss., and Mrs. George Wallace (Lena) Greene, Kilborne [sic Kilbourne], La.; nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild, nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Funeral services will be held from the chapel of Radney Funeral Home Friday, May 18, 1973, at 3 p.m. Interment will be in Mobile Memorial Gardens.

Visitation at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Thursday. Funeral arrangements by Radney Funeral Home, Dauphin Street Extension.