Marilyn “Louise” Poston Means 1941-2024

Posted Thursday, January 11, 2024 8:28 am

A Celebration of Life service for Marilyn “Louise” Poston Means, 82, of Alba was held at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 8, 2024 at Enon Baptist Church with Pastor Reggie Day and Brother Tibby Wright officiating.

Interment was in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery.

Mrs. Means passed away Jan. 6, 2024 in Bullard. She was born Aug. 2, 1941 in Gilmer to Walter Edgar and Mary Ann (Brown) Moore. Louise lived most of her life in Rains, Wood and Van Zandt counties. She went to high school at Rains and was a member of Enon Baptist Church. She retired from the Alba Post Office and also worked as a dairy farmer, cattle rancher and homemaker.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John E. Means, father of her sons James D. Poston; seven siblings, Billy, Ann, Dan, Beth, Grayborn, Carl and Sandra; and grandson, James “Mike” Poston.

Survivors include her two sons, Jim and wife Carol of Tyler, and Gilley and wife Gay of Alba; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and nieces, nephews and other loved ones.

Memorials may be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com (Please select affiliate TXWOOD); East Texas Food Bank https://www.easttexasfoodbank.org/donatenow/; or Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, 203 County Rd 1610, Alba, TX 75410.

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