Extracted from The Daily Herald (Columbia, TN)
Thursday, August 5, 2004

George Ellis Pinkston

CORNERSVILLE - George Ellis Pinkston, 85, died Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2004, at Alvin C. York Medical Center in Murfreesboro.

Services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday at Cornersville Funeral Home with burial in Mars Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be until the funeral hour Thursday.

He was the son of the late Burnie and Ruby Walker Pinkston. He was retired from Heil-Quaker Corp. and farming. He was an Army veteran of WWII and a member of Cornersville Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Roberta Christopher Pinkston.

Survivors include sons, Ellis Pinkston of Petersburg and Jimmy Pinkston of Ardmore, Ala.; a sister, Catherine Kennedy of Lewisburg; and four grandchildren.