Warren L Preston

Death Comes to Hi School Boy

Appendicitis fatal to Warren L.  Preston Jr. Senior Student Paintsville High School

                Warren L Preston, Jr., known to classmates and friends as Junior Preston son of Mr and Mrs. Warren L Preston Sr., died at the Paintsville Hospital last Wednesday after following an operation for appendicitis.

(Some of paper damaged and missing) 18 years of age, exceptionally bright..best of habits and his death casused much sorrow, not alone...immediate family but to the .....of Paintsville in general. He ..a regular attendant at his class and was loved and respected by the whole school. He had been a member of the church for the past few years and before death gave expressions that all was well with his s..... Mr. Preston had been ill for only a week before his death. He was taken to the hospital on Sunday for an operation which disclosed that fact that his appendix had ruptured causing gangrene to set up which caused his death the following Wednesday. Young Preston would have graduated in May had he lived. 

He is survived by his father and mother, three brothers and six sisters. Miss Miriam Preston, Mrs. Vigil Picklesimer, Mrs. Harry Zeigler of New York City, Mrs. Jamie Mitchell, Mrs. J F Russmissell of Welch WV and a small sister. All were present at the funeral except Mrs. Zeigler.

                Pall bearers were selected from members of the senior class as follows:

Clarence Schmidt, F P Hager, Tom Preston, Delmas Preston, Glen Spradlin and S E Stratton.

                Funeral services were conducted Friday afternoon at the M E Church in charge of Rev Arthur Green, of the United Baptist Church assisted by Rev W B Foley of the Methodist church and Rev A H Webb of the Missionary Baptist Church. A quartette composed of Mrs. Holmes Kirk, Mrs. Henry Pfening, Rev E R Overley, and dr. D H Daniel sang beautiful selections appropriate for the occasion.

                Young Preston was a member of one of the oldest and respected families of the sandy Valley.           Interment took place in the old Mont Preston Cemetery on Davis Branch, in the presence of a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives.

The Paintsville Herald

 January 20, 1927  Thursday