EARNIE REX RISTER

CHARLESTON -- Earnie Rex Rister, 67, of Charleston, died Friday, Nov. 26, 1993, at his home of an apparent heart attack.

He was born July 28, 1926 in Blodgett, son of Ernie and Edna Moore Rister.

He was a retired truck driver and had lived in Charleston most of his life.

He was a veteran of the Army, serving in the Korean War, and was of the Methodist faith. He was also a member of VFW Post 4291 in Charleston.

On Dec. 29, 1954 at Hernando, Miss., he married Betty Cutliph, who survives of the home.

Other survivors include one daughter, Margaret Lankheit of the home; one brother, Charles Rister of Searcy, Ark.; four sisters, Brenda Jones and Glenda Evans both of Blodgett, Margaret Evelyn McPherson of Benton, and Betty Compas of Alton, Ill.; one granddaughter; and two great-granddaughters.

One brother preceded him in death.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Shelby Funeral Home in Charleston, with Gerald Penn, pastor of the First Assembly of God Church, officiating. Burial will follow in the Odd Fellows Cemetery near Charleston.