Junior Eastabrook

FRIEDHEIM, Mo. -- Junior LaPierre Eastabrook, 81, of Friedheim died Friday, Jan. 25, 2008, at Independence Care Center of Perry County in Perryville, Mo.

He was born July 28, 1926, in Crockett, Ark., son of LaPierre and Elsie Elnora Pulver Eastabrook. He and Austene Shelton were married Feb. 14, 1975. She died in September 2005.

Eastabrook was pastor of the Church of God in Marshall, Mich., and had been supervisor of housekeeping at Albion College in Albion, Mich., retiring in 1982. He moved to Friedheim in 2005. He was a member of Covenant Christian Center in Fruitland.

He served in the U.S. Army.

Survivors include two sons, Terry Culberson of Friedheim, Dan Culberson of Colon, Mich.; a daughter, June Buys of Edmonton, Ky.; a brother, Glenn Eastabrook of Morongo, Calif.; 18 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to service time Monday at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home in Jackson.

The funeral will be at noon Monday at the funeral home, with the Revs. Terry and Mark Culberson officiating. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson.