Coward Services Held Sunday at First Baptist
Funeral services for Alvah J. Coward, 70, longtime area resident, were held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the First Baptist Church. The Rev. Otis Testerman, pastor, officiated, assisted by the Rev. Jack Coward of Fort Worth, nephew of A.J. Coward.Coward died at 7 p.m. Friday at Nichols Manor. Burial was in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of King Funeral Home.
Born at Rosebud, he was a retired farmer. He moved to Crosby County in 1917 where he lived on a farm four miles south of Crosbyton until his recent illness.
Surviving are his wife, Nettie; a sons, Arlois of Lubbock; four grandchildren, Mrs. Kay Graham of Jacksonville, Fla., Stanley Coward of Nashville, Tenn., Mrs. Glenda Stephenson, Dallas, Billy Coward of Lubbock; four great-grandchildren; one brother, D.E. Coward of Dallas; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were Jim Holman, Don Moses, Clyde Ausmus, Troy Webb, Bob White, J.E. Whitehead. Honorary pallbearers were H. Work, F.M. Dunn, Robert Work, Joe Lemonds, Dr. Wayne Houser, George Strange, John Harvey, Campdon Lawson, L.E. Sursa, L.H. Finch, Roy Lee Ellis, O.W. Howard and Tillman Reeves.
Crosbyton Review, April 30, 1964
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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