The Forest City Courier
1945

Gaston is the father of Barry Bailey, Gail Bailey Toney and the late Linda Bailey Bostic, all of the Cliffside area. He served on LST-1029 (a Landing Ship Tank craft) in the Pacific. Gaston worked many years in the Cliffside Mills weave room as a weaver, loom fixer and second hand. Gaston died in 1968 and is buried in Cleveland Memorial Park near Boiling Springs. His widow, the former Virginia Godfrey, of Spindale, died in 2002.

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