St. John's Cemetery Individual Record
Edgar Hubert Gavin
(September 26, 1885 -- February 2, 1939)
| Section: | 57 |
| Space: | 1 |
| Lot: | 3 |
| Spouse: | Etta Lee Brigman Gavin |
| Place of Birth: | Choctaw, AL |
| Occupation: | Business |
| Comments: | L&N RR engineer |
| EDGAR H. GAVIN Edgar H. Gavin, veteran Louisville and Nashville railroad engineer died in Pensacola Hospital at 1:02 pm on February 2, 1939. He was 53 years old and had been ill one month. He had been with the railroad for 33 years, serving on a freight run and more recently in the yard service. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Division 275, and of the Gadsden Street Methodist Church. He was an avid fisherman. Once while wade-fishing in three feet of water in Santa Rosa Sound, a mackerel measuring four feet long and weighing twenty pounds, landed in a nearby skiff. In the excitement, he dropped and lost his fishing equipment in order to wrestle with his new found catch. Some after that called him, the ÒChampion Fish CharmerÓ. Survivors included his wife, Etta Lee Gavin; a son, Bernard; a daughter, Kathleen Rhodes; three grandchildren, Jo Ann Gavin and Sharlyn and Sandra Rhodes, all of Pensacola; a sister, Carrie Miller, Vossburg, Miss., and three brothers, Charles W. Gavin of Lakeland, Florida, Dr. C.A. Gavin of New Port Richey, Florida, and A.C. Gavin of Ponce de Leon, Florida. Funeral services will be held at the residence, 1101 E. DeSoto St. at 3:00 with the Rev. W.M. Curtis and the Rev. A.C. Townley officiating. Burial will be in St. JohnÕs cemetery with Waters and Hibbert in charge of arrangements. Pallbearers will be: Active, George Spears, W.N. Fowler, B.R. Smith, R.L. Brooks, W.A. Richbourg, and W.J. Roberts; honery, A.C. Johnson, W.M. Merrill, M. Chapbell, Dr. Herbert Bryans, Dr. A.M. Ames, Dr. V.R. Nobles, Dr. J.J. McGuire, and T.V. Waite. | |