Crestview News Bulletin

Don Hampton married Wilma Mae Louks on Aug 19, 1950. Don was born on July 20, 1927 to Donovan and Beulah Hampton in Indiana. Preceded in death by brothers Norman (Reid) Hampton Richard (Dick) Hampton, and sister, still living, Rita West. Their children are Jerry Hampton, Linda Duncan, and Teresa Rutherford. Don has 11 grandchildren, and 10 great grandchildren. Don graduated from Linden High School in 1946. Drafted into the Army Air Corps. Then in Aug 1950, was redrafted into the Army during Korea. After that he joined the Army reserves. Don worked and retired from R & R Donnlley's in Crawfordsville, Indiana in 1983. Later moving to Florida. Last living in the Crestview, Florida area. His...

Eric "Opie" Watt was born on July 10,1963, and passed on July 8th, 2022, at the age of 58. Opie was born in Sarasota, Florida but grew up in Farragut, Tennessee with his siblings Rachel, Janee, and Chuck, under the loving care of his parents, Bob and Betty Watt. Opie enlisted in the Air Force shortly after graduating high school and spent the next 22 years traveling the world. His career as a Flight Engineer led him to Charleston, South Carolina where he fell in love with his wife, Sonya. They married in 1990 and raised two boys, Jacob and Jackson, who have since followed in their father's footsteps to military service. After retiring from the military in 2004, Opie moved on to the private...

Shirley Ann Stokes Rudd-Stephens, 77 years of age, passed away June 11, 2022, in Tallahassee, Florida. She was born October 16,1944, in Florella, Alabama, to J.C. Stokes and Eunice Stokes. Shirley was raised in Laurel Hill, Florida, and graduated from Laurel Hill High School. Afterwards, Shirley relocated to Melbourne, Florida, where she married James O. Rudd, with whom she had two children, Faith Rudd Leynes and Shane Rudd. Shirley is survived by her loving husband, Matthew Gene Stephens; her grandchildren, Courtney Leynes, and Robert Leynes III (wife Savanna); two great grandchildren Oliver Owen Leynes and Chloe Elaine Leynes; brothers James Stokes (wife Syretha) and Elwin Stokes (wife...

Dianna Steidinger, 64, of 4679 Meadow Lake Drive, Crestview, Florida, went home to be with the Lord on May 14, 2022, from Crestview Rehab Facility, Crestview, Florida. Dianna was born June 12, 1957, to Walter Curren and Charlotte Curren at Glens Falls, Hospital in Glens Falls, NY. She graduated as Valedictorian of her senior class at Bolton Central School in 1975. She went on to receive her degree in Education, graduating from SUNY Oswego in 1979, and received her master's in education from SUNY Albany in 1982. Dianna so greatly loved children, and this was reflected through her being an excellent elementary teacher at Whitehall Central School in Whitehall, NY for 30 years. Dianna married...