REVEREND PAUL GALLION, SR.
Funeral services for Reverend Paul Gallion, Sr., 81 of Lumberton will be 2:00 pm Sunday at Farmer Funeral Home in Silsbee with interment following in Resthaven Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 3:00 pm Saturday at the funeral home.
Rev. Gallion died March 9, 2006 at his residence in Lumberton.
A native of Ashland, Kentucky, Reverend Gallion was a long time resident of this area. He graduated from Ashland High School and attended seminary in Fort Smith Arkansas. Paul was a Baptist minister for 55 years and a chaplain for Hardin County nursing homes. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the US Army and the US Navy.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Weirton Gallion of Lumberton; sons Paul Gallion Jr. and wife Fran of Warren and Donald Gallion and wife Sandra of Silsbee; daughters Wanda Welch and husband Thomas of Lumberton, Mary Alice Leger and husband Carroll of Silsbee, Cynthia Immel and husband Freddie of Silsbee and Gloria Beohme and husband Roger of Webester, NY; stepson Jon Roof and wife Danielle of California; stepdaughters Terry Davis of Vidor and Stephanie Catlett of California; sister Essie Bartlett of Muncie, Indiana; brother Sammy Gallion of Ashland, Kentucky; seventeen grandchildren and thirty three great grandchildren.
