LEONIDAS MARCELUS “LEE” ALFORD

AAFA #0466

1916 MS – 1997 MS

 

 

THE CLARION-LEDGER

Jackson, Hinds Co., MS—Monday, 21 July 1997

 

            Lee Alford, 80, of W. Maywood Circle, a retired certified public accountant, died of cancer Sunday [July 20] at his home.

            Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday at Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home with burial in Lakewood cemetery....

            Mr. Alford was a native of Roundaway in Coahoma County. He had lived in Jackson since 1972. He was a graduate of Gulfport High School and attended Millsaps College before graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1938. He was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.

            In 1942, Mr. Alford enlisted in the U.S. Marines and earned the rank of major. He was a licensed accountant in Mississippi and Georgia and had worked for Ernst & Young in Atlanta and Chattanooga, Tenn., until his retirement.

            He was a member of Broadmeadow United Methodist Church, a past president of Mississippi Estate Planning Council and was treasurer and director of the Fondren Civitan Club. He was a member of the American Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants. He was a member of the Military Order of World Wars.

            Mr. Alford worked until he was 72, his wife, Marjorie said, “He enjoyed working and he enjoyed working with the different charities too,” she said.

            “He enjoyed his friends and was a voracious reader,” his nephew, B.B. Hosch of Natchez said. “He was very dedicated not just to work but to his family too. He worked hard and played hard.”

            His son, William Alford of Indianola, was born when Lee Alford was 50, but that didn’t make much of a difference, William said. “There was a generation gap there,” he admitted. “But, he was very supportive of anything I did and he could surprise me with his understanding of things I thought we would disagree on.”

            Other survivors include: daughters, Ann Baird [AAFA #0025] and Pat Alford, both of Siloam Springs, Ark.; brother, E. Griffin Alford [AAFA #0452] of Jackson; and three grandchildren....

 

 

Photos from Lakewood Memorial Park, Jackson, Hinds Co., MS—www.findagrave.com

Permission granted by the photographer, Fran

 

AAFA NOTES: SSDI records show that Lee M. Alford (SS# issued in MS) was born 10 Aug 1916.

            We included the obituaries of his wife, Marjorie Louise Case Alford; brother Edgar Griffin Alford Sr., AAFA #0423; and cousins Aurora Louise Alford Gilchrist and Stewart Floyd Alford III in Mississippi Obituaries.

            From SSACI: Lee M. Alford Jr. was born 10 Aug 1916 in Roundaway, MS, son of Lee M. Alford and Jessie P. Griffin.

            *See AAFA’s Published Genealogies, #3.

            His lineage: Leonidas Marcelus 1916 MS¹, Leonidas Marcelus 1878 LA², Stewart Floyd 1835 GA³, Julius C. 1798 GA⁴, Julius 1750 NC⁵, Lodwick 1710 VA⁶, James 1687 VA⁷, John 1645 VA⁸.