PRESTON, William F (Rev) - Putnam

Services for Rev. William F. Preston, 74, Southport, retired Methodist minister will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the GH Herrmann Funeral Home with burial at Greencastle.  He did yesterday in an Evansville hospital.  Born here, Rev. Preston was a 1908 graduate of DePauw University and a 1918 graduate of the Boston University School of Theology.  After serving pastorates in the New England area 32 years, he returned to Indiana in 1946 to become pastor of East Connersville Methodist Church, retiring in 1949. Rev. Preston was a member of the Masonic Lodge and past patron of the Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors are the widow, Frances V. (Price) Preston; a daughter, Margaret Ann Julian, Evansville; a son, Edwin Preston, Southport; four sisters, three brothers and three grandchildren. – kbz