Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Tuesday, November 23, 1982

Quinnie B. Preston

WIGGINS -- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Moore Funeral Home chapel for Quinnie B. Preston, 73, of Wiggins, who died Sunday at Keesler Air Force Base Medical Center in Biloxi.

Dr. Ernest Sadler and the Rev. Tom Reeves will officiate. Interment will be in Big Level Cemetery.

Mr. Preston, a native of Stone County, was a retired lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean conflict and a member of Big Level Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Preston; three sisters, Mrs. Elsie Saucier and Mrs. Ford O'Neal, both of Wiggins, and Mrs. Gene Cameron of Petal; two brothers, H.W. Preston of Wiggins and L.W. Preston of Texarkana, Tex.; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Visitation will be from 6-10 tonight at the funeral home.