Obituaries:  Vikki Marie McGruder, Sabine Parish       M-263
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Aug 5, 1992
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Vikki Marie McGruder (Photo)

  Funeral services for Vikki Marie McGruder, age 53, of Dallas,
were held Wednesday, July 15, 1992, at Freedom Missionary Baptist
Church in Dallas. The Reverend Mack T. Fleming officiated.
Interment was held at Laurel Land Memorial Park, under the
direction of Hampton Place Funeral Home.

  Mrs. McGruder was stabbed to death after working hours in the
back room of her Winnewood Village salon on Friday, July 10,
1992.

  She was a former resident of Sabine Parish. She attended grammar
school in Zwolle, and was a graduate of Booker T. Washington High
School in Dallas. She was the proprietor of a very prestigious
hair salon, "Reflections by Vikki". In 1987, she was selected
Entrepreneur of the Year by the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority. She was
also a member of the Pylon Salesmanship, and the Black Chamber of
Commerce.

  Mrs. McGruder was preceded in death by her husband, Shirlley
McGruder.

  She is survived by her mother, Lillie Mae Miles of Dallas,
Texas; her father, Matthew Holden of Louisiana; two daughters,
Brandie Dayn McGruder, and Roslyn Echols, both of Dallas; four
sisters, Alice Faye Ward Holden of Converse, Thelma Johnson,
Maxine Coleman, and Edna Gaither, all of Dallas; four brothers,
Leslie Holden, Johnny McClanahan, Leonard McClanahan, and Melvin
McClanahan, all of Dallas; an aunt, Thelma Whitaker; three great
uncles, Wiley McClanahan, Porter McClanahan, and Dan McClanahan
of Galveston, Texas, and Robert McClanahan; and many other
relatives; and numerous friends throughout Louisiana and Texas.