This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bird, Locklin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5500 Message Board Post: Houston Chronicle Date: Thursday 03/14/02 Section: A Edition: 3 BIRD JACK D. BIRD age 70, died Tuesday, March 12, 2002 in Rockdale . He has lived in Rockdale since 1993 formerly of Houston, where he lived for many years. He was born January 6, 1932 in Meade, KS. He married Jo Locklin July 16, 1978 in Houston. He was a Heavy Equipment Operator for Dunn Equipment at Texas City. he retired November 1993. He is survived by wife Jo Bird of Rockdale; Son, Keith Tusing of Garland; Daughters Pamela Sauce of Houma, LA. Brothers Donald R. Bird of Houston Sisters: Helen Rice of New Caney; Twylah Hill of Powder Springs, GA. He was a member of Local 450 International Union of Operating Engineers. Funeral 2:00 P.M. Friday March 15, 2002 at Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home in Rockdale . Burial in the Davilla Cemetery in Davilla, Texas. Memorials: Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library, or Rockdale Historical Society.