Booker T. Tisdale Sr.,Auburn leader, dies

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, January 22, 2002

HOPKINSVILLE Booker T. Tisdale Sr., 91, of Auburn died Nov. 17, 2002.He was active in the Union District, a Logan County Deputy Sheriff, a school bus driver, an employee of Scotts Mill, co-founder of Evergreen Masonic Lodge No. 165, and organized Eastern Star. He was a 32nd degree mason and Master of the Lodge, a Kentucky Colonel, a special guest of the Tuskegee Airmen, and a member, deacon, and superintendent of Sunday school, and chairman of the deacon board at Macedonia Baptist Church. He was a member of Center South Union Baptist Church and Auburn City Council. He was a son of the late Jesse Tisdale and Elizabeth Turnbow Tisdale and husband of the late Hannah Viers Tisdale. He was preceded in death by six children, Ida Robinson, Jean Allen, Booker Tisdale Jr., Evelyn Buckner, Virginia Bunton and James Tisdale.Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Macedonia Baptist Church in Auburn with burial in the church cemetery. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. today at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Gamble Funeral Home.Survivors include five children, Dorothy Barbee of East Orange, N.J., Jesse Tisdale, Claude Tisdale, and Pat Bailey, all of Auburn, and Mary Edison of Indianapolis; and an adopted son, the Rev. Jimmy Williams of Green Cove Springs, Fla., and Bowling Green; 26 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

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