This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Alexander, Autrey,Beasley, Endsley, Shirley, Scarborough, Welborn, Torrans, Walker, Stinson, Rogers Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GkB.2ACI/967 Message Board Post: Texarkana Gazette April 21, 2004 Preston Hunt "Pete" Shirley age 85,of Texarkana, Texas died Monday April 19,2004 at his home. Mr. Shirley was born December 21,1918 to Thomas Smithson Shirley Jr. and Hattie Dora Smith Shirley, Bowie County Pioneers. He had been a Rancher, Farmer, owner of Texarkana Stockyards and Southern Packing Company, and developed Echo Hills housing addition. He was a member of Echo Hills Missionary Baptist Church, the Masons, and Hella Temple Knights Templar, and the Shriners. He was preceaded in death by his wife, Lela Shirley, December 10,2003. Survivors include his children, Sue and Tommy Goff and Rita and Danny Pessel; his grandchildren, Chuck and Mona Rampy, Connie and Don Gregory, Doug and Karen Rampy, Jason and Kathlene Goff, Pete and Donna Pessel, Cary and Kate Pessel, and Bob Pessel; eight great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews. Services will be held at Chapelwood Funeral Home, Kings Highway on Wednesday April 21,2004 at 12:00 n! oon with the Rev. Don Bowman and Rev. Roy Edwards officiating. Masonic burial rites will be held in the chapel with burial in Chapelwood Memorial Gardens. The family will be at the Shirley home on FM 991. To learn more of our family, please visit Jo's Front Porch, http://www.joautrey.com or Autrey Connections, http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/jautrey9