Floyd Coston

Floyd Coston passed recently from this life at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis at the age of 85 years, 6 months and 15 days.

A native of Camden, he was born March 1, 1929, to Percy Maxwell and Bessie Lou Gay Coston. He attended Fairview High School and served in the Air Force, National Guard and the Navy Reserve. On Aug. 8, 1959, he was married to Virginia Mae Freeman, who passed from this life Dec. 27, 2008. He owned and operated Coston Construction Company, lived in Memphis for 26 years and moved to Pocahontas 25 years ago.

Mr. Coston loved hunting, fishing, wood working, collecting and building antique cars, and was a tinkerer and a traveler. He was considered "the most kind person" and "he never met a stranger." He also volunteered at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Bolivar where he was a member, and in his communities.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Shackelford Funeral Directors Chapel in Middleton, Tennessee, with burial at Oak Grove Independent Cemetery in Pocahontas, Tennessee.

In addition to his parents and wife, he was preceded in death by a sister, Dorothy Coston Rouse.

Survivors include two daughters, Helen Burton and her husband Kenneth of Louann, Arkansas, and Doreen Harris of Memphis;

Two sons, Floyd Leonard Coston Jr. and his wife Susan of Atoka, Tennessee, and John David Coston of Millington, Tennessee;

A sister, Clementene Joy Sherman and her husband Robert of Chidester, Arkansas; and

Eight grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

The family requests that memorials may be made to the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation at www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org.

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