Obit: Ernestine McCain Hatcher Ruesch,  Caddo Par., Louisiana
Submitted by: Suzanne Shoemaker
Date: Jan. 1999
Source: SHREVEPORT TIMES NOV. 10, 1998 ISSUE



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ERNESTINE MCCAIN HATCHER RUESCH
     

Funeral services for Ernestine McCain Hatcher Ruesch will be held Tuesday,

November 10, 1998 at 1 p.m. at Osborn Funeral Home in Shreveport.


Officiating will be Rev. Ed Dillworth of New Orleans.  Visitation will be 6

to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, and burial will be at Forest Park

Cemetery.

     

Ernestine died Sunday, November 8, 1998 at Schumpert Medical Center.  She

was born in Shreveport on September 9, 1916.  She graduated from C. E. Byrd

High School.  She was educated at Dana College, Blair, Nebraska, and she

graduated from Centenary College, where she was chosen May Queen.  She

taught in publc schools for a number of years at Barret School in

Shreveport and in Rodessa, TX.  Ernestine lived most of her life in

Shreveport, but she also lived 17 years in Mansfield.  She was a member of

Zion Christian Fellowship.

     

Ernestine was preceded in death by her first husband, C. J. (Nip) Hatcher.

 

She is survived by her husband James Patrick Ruesch; her three sons and

their wives, Jere and Mary Hatcher, Jim and Linda Hatcher, and Craig and

Gail Hatcher, nine grandchildren, Dean Hatcher, Kent Hatcher, Kay Jambor

and her husband, Dan, Rachel Ann Hatcher, James Christopher and his wife,

Melissa Hatcher, Becky Hatcher, Rachel Hatcher, Laura Hatcher, and Patrick

Hatcher; and frou grat-grandchildren.  Ernestine is also survived by five

step-children, Sharon and Tom Kelly, Ruthene and Doug Jowers, Tommy Ruesch,

Wayne and Diane Tuesch, Kevin and Dottie Ruesch; ten step-grandchildren,

and eight step-great-grandchildren.

     

Pallbearers will be Pete Steinman, Jack Brewer, Jack Buttitta, Steve

Crane, Kurt Ley, and Robert Tapp.  Honorary pallbearers will be John Wise,

Gurdon Flanagan, Duane Cloud, Virgil Dixon, and Neil Hargrove.