Monday, April 23, 2012

Charles A. Westfall (1874-1951)

Charles A. Westfall, 77, retired Baptist minister of Dierks, Arkansas, died in a Little Rock hospital on Friday following a long illness.  He was born March 4, 1874 in Davidson County, North Carolina to Andrew H. Westfall and Elizabeth Cornish Westfall.  He had been pastor for churches in Howard, Hempstead, Pike and Sevier counties for the last 47 years.  He had been hospitalized for the last three months.

Survivors include his wife, Mattie Keeling Westfall, two sons, O'Neal Westfall, now in the Army, and Charles S. Westfall of Hot Springs, two daughters, Myrtle Westfall of Nashville Tennessee, and Mrs. Jewel (Herbert) Cates of Texarkana; two brothers, two sisters, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. 

Services will be conducted at 2:30pm today in the First Baptist Church by the Rev. W.E. Perry and burial will be in Ozan Cemetery in Bingen.

=== published in the Arkansas Democrat, 18 March 1951.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of Rev. Westfall.

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