was a life-long member of the Methodist church and served as annual Head Usher for over 20 years at the First Methodist Church in Elberton, Georgia, and was a member of its land surveyor in 1949 in Arlington and Fairfax Counties, Administrative Board. Virginia, and in 1950 as a mining engineer and mine geologist Dr. Aston is survived by his beloved wife, Mary Ellen for the Tennessee Copper Company, Ducktown, Tennessee. Pierce Aston, of the home; four children by a former marriage: In December 1958, after a short stint as a plant engineer and Laurie Lee Aston of California, Gary Lee Aston, an attorney of assistant superintendent for Signal Mountain Portland Cement Elberton, Georgia and his wife Linda, Roger Aston and his wife, Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee, he entered private pracGrace, of California, and Robin Lee Aston of Elberton, Georgia; tice as a consulting mining engineer. He taught mining and four grandchildren: Derek David Aston and his wife, Katy, of petroleum geology at the University of Chattanooga (later U. Elberton, Charlotte N. Aston of Elberton, Ashley Morgan of Tenn at Chattanooga) from 1958-1959. In 1958 he opened California, and Ryan Aston of California; and two great-granda consulting mining engineering office in Signal Mountain, children: Hayleigh Jo Aston and Brady Anthony Smith. He is Tenn., subsequently moving his office in 1959 to Tate, Georgia, also survived by a step-daughter, Katherine and her husband, and then, to Elberton, Ga., in 1960. In April 1964, he started his Tony, and granddaughter, Cortnee Smith, all of Fredericksburg, own stone quarrying company in Virginia with the opening of a VA.; and special caregivers: Ms. Celecia Tate, Ms. Theodoshia black granite mine. He later opened two more granite quarries Brunson, and Mrs. Barbara Fleming. in Georgia and North Carolina. In 1987, after passing the bar A service to celebrate Dr. Aston’s life was held on Thursday, exams in two states, he added the practice of law. Aston mainSeptember 5, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. at First United Methodist tained law offices in Elberton, Georgia and in Rapidan, Virginia. Church, Elberton, with Rev. Dr. Wallace Wheeles and Rev. Joe He continued his Mineral Engineering and Law practice until Watson officiating. Interment was at Waterloo Cemetery in his death. Waterloo, Indiana on September 8, 2013. Dr. Aston was a member of the Sons of Confederate Arrangements for Dr. Robert Lee Aston were in the care of Veterans and of the Sons of the American Revolution, and a Hicks Funeral Home of Elberton. Director of the 44th Bomb Group Veterans Association. He
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