SAMUEL AUSTIN

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Samuel Dale Austin of Chaffee will be held at 1 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. Patrick Tankersley will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.

Austin, 39, died Monday, Jan. 30, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

He was born May 24, 1956, in Cape Girardeau, son of Clyde Estes and Maude Elizabeth Brown Austin. He and Leslie Diane Kimbel were married Dec. 11, 1992.

Austin was a painter with Duncan Painting and Wallcovering. He served two years in the U.S. Air Force.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Devin Austin of the home; two stepdaughters, Melissa and Stephanie Weber of Jackson; three brothers, Keith Austin of Gresham, Ore., Kenneth Austin of Jackson, Lanny Austin of Cape Girardeau; three sisters, Brenda Dysinger and Beverly Payne of Chaffee, and Sandy Dunning of Delta.