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Submitted: 8/2/16 • Approved: 8/16/16 • Last Updated: 4/14/18 • R794890-G0-S3
14 Jun 1906 Cooter, Pemiscot, MO
21 Sep 1969 Memphis, Shelby, TN
Parents:
Fred W. Gestring (1879 - 1965)
Mollie Ann Young Gestring (1886 - 1964)
The Steele Enterprise, Steele, Missouri
Friday, September 25, 1969
Funeral services for Raymond Hasting Gestring, 63, were held September 22, 1969, at the John W. German Funeral Home in Steele. Rev. James F. McCrary officiated.
Burial was at Mount Zion Cemetery with John W. German Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Gestring was born June 14, 1906 at Cooter, Mo., and died September 21, 1969, at the Methodist Hospital in Memphis.
Mr. Gestring, the son of the late Fred and Mollie Gestring, was a retired truck driver.
Pallbearers were: Walter Holly, Frank Collins, Carl Gunn, William Biggs, Burel Baker and Jimmy Hicks.
He leaves two sons: Wayne Gestring, Memphis and Hasting Gestring, Acoma, Okla.; one daughter, Carlotta Gestring, Acoma, four brothers: Homer Gestring, Holland, Omer Gestring and Clarence Gestring, St. Anne, Mo.; and Lois Gestring, California; two sisters, Mrs. Lottie Hicks, Steele; and Mrs. Media Samford, San Jose, California, and three grandchildren.
Contributed on 8/2/16 by ttack37
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