TITLE:  Theodore Alston

SOURCE: The Beaufort Gazette, July 25, 2001

SUBMITTED BY: The Beaufort Gazette

FORMATTED BY: Kim Grissom, July 2001

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Theodore Alston 
RIDGELAND - Theodore Alston, 65, died Tuesday, July 24, 2001, in 
Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Sauls Funeral Home, Ridgeland is in charge. 
Rosa Maggie Jenkins Frazier (The Beaufort Gazette July 25, 2001)

Theodore Roosevelt Alston Jr. 
RIDGELAND - Theodore Roosevelt Alston Jr., 65, died Tuesday, July 24,
2001, in Beaufort Memorial Hospital. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 
p.m. Friday in Sauls Funeral Home, Ridgeland. Services will be at 3 
p.m. Saturday in The Baptist Center with burial in Grahamville 
Cemetery. Mr. Alston was born June 11, 1936, in Ridgeland, a son of 
Theodore R. Alston Sr. and Viola Cochran Alston. He was an auto 
mechanic for Malphrus Construction Co. He was a member of St. Paul 
Baptist Church, Coosawatchie. He was a well-known semi-pro baseball 
player who was recruited by the Milwaukee Braves in 1956, and hit by 
a foul ball which blinded his right eye. In 1958, he formed Ridgeland 
Star which played in the S.C. Independent League. He later formed and 
managed the Ridgeland Red-Sox which played in the Georgia-South 
Carolina Semi Pro League. He was the first welder hired by Smith Ford 
in Ridgeland. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Survivors include
his wife, Irene H. Alston of Ridgeland; six sons, Joseph Alston of 
Detroit, Anthony, Henry and Turtle Alston and Darryl Heyward of 
Ridgeland and Albert Young of Philadelphia; four daughters, Tanya, 
Gwendolyn and Patricia Alston of Ridgeland and Viola Alston of 
Columbia; three brothers, Nathaniel Alston of Ridgeland, James Alston 
of Tucker, Ga., and Robert Alston of Philadelphia; a sister, Mary 
Johnson of Philadelphia; 27 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. 
(The Beaufort Gazette July 26, 2001)
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