Obituary of Van Rayburn Jr, Mississippi Co, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Barbara Brittain Ryals not related Date: Sep 1998 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** (Osceola [AR] Times; Thursday, June 20, 1991; page 7) V.H. "Van" RAYBURN, Jr., 80, of Osceola, died June 15, 1991. He was an elder of Osceola First Presbyterian Church, WWII Army veteran, retired from Federal Compress & Warehouse Co. of Memphis, Tennessee, played pro football for Brooklyn Dodgers (1934), and a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Survivors include his wife, Mable RAYBURN of Osceola; three sons, V.H. RAYBURN III of Houston, Texas, David Spence RAYBURN of Fort Worth, Texas, and Daniel Bibb RAYBURN of New Castle, Delaware; and three grandchildren. Services were held at 10:00 a.m. June 17, 1991 at First Presbyterian Church in Osceola with Rev. Joe GRIDER officiating. Burial was in Mississippi County Memorial Gardens in Osceola. Roller-Swift Funeral Home of Osceola was in charge.