Albert D. Houston, Tue. Feb. 11, ’69  

   Albert D. Houston 87, of the Malesus Community, a retired employee of the Cotton Belt Railroad and a farmer, died at 3:45 a.m. today at the Jackson-Madison County General Hospital where he had been carried a short time earlier.

  Mr. Houston was born and reared in Pinson, son of the late Billy and Molly McHaney Houston, and had made his home in Jackson for several years and for a number of years lived in Helena, Ark., where he was employed by the Cotton Belt Railroad.  He later moved back to Pinson where he made his home until 1966 when he moved to Malesus.

  He was a member of the Malesus Methodist Church and of the Henderson Masonic Lodge.

  Survivors include: his widow, Mrs. Florence Kent Houston; a son Gaston Houston of Pinson; a daughter, Mrs. Bill Hearn of Pinson; two step-sons, John Robert Chatman with the U. S. Army in Vietnam and Joe Chatman of Picayune, Miss.; three step-daughters, Mrs. Henry Kline of Alabama, Mrs. Joe Morris of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Edna Roberson of Memphis;  and two grandchildren, Donald Houston of Murphysboro, Ill., and Miss Barbara Hearn of Nashville.

  Funeral arrangements, with Smith Funeral Home in charge are incomplete.

  His body will remain at the funeral home.