Freeman Redding, 79, 430 Center Way, Lake Jackson, Texas 77566, died there June 9, 1990.

      Born Oct. 30, 1910, in Carroll County, he was the son of Leroy and Lillie Hargraves Redding.  He was married Dec. 24, 1931, to Pearl Nora Snipes, who survives.

      He attended Baum School, southeast of Delphi, and graduated in 1929 from Delphi High School.  He attended Bliss Electrical School in Takoma Park, D.C.  An electrician, architect and farmer, Redding and his family went to Jamaica in 1952 to rebuild churches destroyed by a hurricane.  In 1957 he started serving in the pastorate of the churches, leaving Jamaica in September 1965.  He continued to fill pulpits in Texas and Indiana.  He also lived in Florida, Ohio, New York and Illinois.

      Surviving with his wife are two daughters, Sara Ann Foubister of Lake Jackson, Tex., and Carol Sue Kahler of Washington state; one brother, Floyd Redding of Cape Coral, Fla.; two sisters, Mary Sellers of Lakeland, Fla., and Meredith Triechel of Georgia; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.  One sister preceded in death.

     Services were in Lake Jackson with burial in Lakeland, Fla.

Obituary notice taken from the Carroll County Comet, Wednesday, June 30, 1990