Obituaries:  Rufus Dew, Sabine Parish       D-000
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 29, 1935
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net


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The Sabine Index - Rufus Dew

  29 Nov 1935 - Rufas Dew, age 34, died in a New Orleans sanitarium
last Sunday night, after a brief illness of typhoid fever.

  Deceased was a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Dew, was born and
reared in the Mt. Zion community, where he was a life-long member of
the Mt. Zion Baptist church.  For the past year he had been employed
by the Texas Oil company at Golden Meadows.

  Funeral services were conducted at the Mt. Zion Baptist church by
his former pastor, Rev. D. L. Goodman, of Colfax, with burial in the
Mt. Zion cemetery.

  Deceased is survived by his widow and two small children, two
brothers, Willie and Ed Dew; five sisters, Mrs. Mary Cooper, Johnnie
Cooper, Mrs. W. H. Brumley, Mrs. J. D. Miller and Mrs. Ezra Dees.