Gholston, Lafayette Edwone - 

87 of Starkville, retired State Soil Specialist for the Mississippi 
State University Cooperative Extension Service, died at Baptist 
Memorial Hospital in Columbus, MS on August 9, 2006.  

Visitation is scheduled prior to the service from 10-11:30 a.m. on 
August 11 in the First Baptist Church Chapel. Funeral Services 
are scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on Friday, August 11, 2006 in the 
First Baptist Church Chapel. Services will be officiated by Rev. 
Clifton Curtis. Burial will be in Memorial Park Gardens. 

The family requests that memorials be made to the First Baptist 
Church or the MDL and Saphronia Alice Gholston Endowed 
Scholarship Fund at Mississippi State University. 

He was the oldest child of Marcus D. Lafayette Gholston 
and Sophronia Gholston. Mr. Gholston was a graduate of 
MSU with advanced degrees in Chemistry and Agronomy. He was a 
veteran of WWII, having served in the European Theater. He was a 
member of the elite VFW division, Forty and Eight and a active 
member of the VFW serving as Quartermaster for the Stoy-Nash VFW f
or nearly twenty years. 

He began his career at MSU as an Instructor in the Agronomy 
Department and in 1948 accepted a position with the Extension 
Department. He established the Soil Testing Department and for 
over thirty years was the Head of Soil Testing for the State of 
Mississippi. 

He was a member of various organizations and was a Master 
Mason with fifty years of service. He was a staunch supporter of the 
MSU Bulldogs and a member of the Maroon and White Bulldog Club. 
An avid supporter of the Diamond Dogs he was well known figure 
figure in the Left-Field Lounge area. He and his wife were Patrons of 
Excellence at MSU. He was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Vadie 
Lorene LeCroy Gholston and his brothers, S. Bulich Gholston and Marvin 
Gholston. He is survived by his son, Robert Edwone Gholston and his wife, 
Nanette of Starkville; daughter, Patricia Rowland and her husband Edward of 
Senatobia; three grandsons, Robert Matthew Gholston, Wesley Stephen Crawley, and 
John Nasif Gholston; sister, Lula B. Gholston; brother, Douglas Gholston.  

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