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Extracted from The Monroe Morning World (Monroe, LA)
Saturday, March 20, 1976

Silas B. Buxton

Chatham -- Funeral services for Silas B. Buxton, 88, of Chatham, will be held at 3 pm today in Chatham United Pentecostal Church with the Rev. Robert Franks officiating. Burial will be in Chatham cemetery under the direction of So[u]thern Funeral Home of Jonesboro. Mr. Buxton died Thursday night in St. Francis Hospital in Monroe after a lenghty illness.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Everett Kyle of Monroe; three sons, T.L. Buxton of Chatham, Lonnie Buxton of Columbus, Miss and John T. Buxton of Zachary; a half-brother, Tom Johnson of Alexandria; 17 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.