Obit of Rudd, Roy Elgin - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Deborah 24 Dec 2006 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Green Hill Cemetery--Davis OK "The Davis News," Wednesday, February 23, 2005, Page 3, carried the following obituary: "ROY ELGIN RUDD Funeral services for Roy Elgin Rudd, 77, of Davis were Feb. 16 at First Baptist Church. The Rev. James Densman officiated, and burial was in Green Hill Cemetery. Rudd was born May 6, 1927, at Kingston to Roy Sr. and May (Kelly) Rudd and died Feb. 15, 2005. He moved to Davis at an early age, and at 17, he enlisted in the U. S. Army and served with honor as a sergeant in World War II. He and Virginia Lumpkin were married July 3, 1948, and together graduated from Davis High School with the class of 1949. He was a salesman in the Oklahoma City area for 38 years. His customers loved and admired him for his Christian witness, honesty, loyalty, dependability and wonderful sense of humor. In 1994, he returned to Davis, and he served as a deacon at the First Baptist Church. He taught the 2- and 3- year-old Sunday school class for many years. He is survived by his wife of the home; four children, a sister, 15 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, Jay, Norman and Sam Selvidge, and a sister, Wilma Jean. Pallbearers were Buck Wilson, Jerry White, Buddy Jones, Gene Cravatt, Bill Bailey and Bob Bailey. First Baptist Church deacons were honorary pallbearers. Krien Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Typed exactly as printed with the exception that the names of living children and sister have been withheld to perhaps help prevent identity theft. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html