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Mexia Rites Are HeldFor Marshall D. RudderFuneral services were held' al Riddle Chapel In Mexia Sunday afternoon at 2: SO for Mar-*' shall D. Rudder, 51, well known Mexia area nurseryman who died in the Veterans Hospital at Marlin Saturday.The services were conducted! by Dr. Frank M. Taylor, min-j ister of the First Presbyterian j Church. Burial was in the Mexia city cemetery with the Riddle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.Pallbearers were Sonny Bowden, Steve Marlin, James Phillips, Tommy Shamblin, Johnny Tacker, Paul Thornton, Jim Webb and Kent Yelverton. Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church were honorary pallbearers.Mr. Rudder, who operated the Rudder Nursery on Highway 14 south of Mexia. was born at Coahoma near Big Spring An Dec. 17, 1915. He spent most oi his early life in West Texai .and grduated from Big ytyf High School.While working with the Phil lips Oil Company, he was the first person drafted into the Army from Big Lake before World War II.He married Miss Martha Jo McClung in 1943 while atflhd ing the Air Corps aviation school in Corsicana. He served in the European Theatre of Operations.Mr. Rudder moved from Corsicana to Mexia 17 years ago and operated the Rudder Nursery since that time. He was a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church.Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Jan Rudder, of Mexia; a daughter, Renell Rudder, of Mexia, and his mother, Mrs. Nellie Rudder, of Abilene.Also surviving are two brothers, Joe Rudder, of Dallas, and Earl Rudder, of Alpine, and three sisters, Mrs. Charles Bar nard, of Abilene; Mrs. Ira Bounds, of Odessa, and Mrs. W. G. Harmon, of San Angelo.MARSHALL D. RUDDERFive People Lose Lives In Wreck Neor HillsboroHILLSBORO, Tex. (AP)-Un-dertakers and police officers have identified five persons who were killed Sunday night when their car plunged off a highway and burst into flames south of Hillsboro.Killed were Mrs. Dorothy Gab-bert, 29, of Hillsboro; Russell Lcnee Gabbert, 11, her son; Joye Gaye Gabbert, 9, her daughter; James Edward, 29 Dallas; and James Danny Webster, 14, of Dallas.Highway Patrolmen said the car veered off Interstate 35 and slammed into a ereekbed eight miles south of Hillsboro. The victims were identified Monday.
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Mexia Daily News
Mexia, Texas, US
Tue, Jan 03, 1967
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