Bronze Star Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of John BASTON.
BASTON, John O. John O. Batson II, a lumber industry veteran whose ambition and love of adventure took him around the South, and the world, died on February 5, 2019. He was 94. John was born on July 23, 1924 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the second son of Claud L. Batson and Mary Bryan Batson. He and his brother, Blair E. Batson, grew up in the tiny sawmill town of Orvisburg, Mississippi, where his paternal grandfather, Randolph Batson, owned the mill and his maternal grandmother, Mary...
