Ellis County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Ruffin, W.  C.  1959
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The Ennis Daily News
Services Conducted 
For W.C. Ruffin

Funeral services were held at Bunch Funeral Chapel at 2 pm today for Willis
Cleveland Ruffin, 75, who passed away Monday at his home in Alma.
[May 25, 1959]

Rev. Raymond Burton, paster of the First Methodist Church, officiated. Burial
was in Rice Cemetery.

Born January 2, 1885, in Georgia, [Taylor County], Mr. Ruffin moved to Alma 72
years ago. He was married to Miss Willie Emma Brown on February 4, 1907.

A retired farmer, he was a member of the First Methodist Church of Ennis.

Survivors include his wife: five sons; Cecil Ruffin, Alma; P.R. Ruffin, Ennis;
W.C. Ruffin Jr. Anson; Thurman Ruffin, Ennis; and Jack Ruffin, Englewood, Calif;
three daughters, Mrs. C.E. Bell of Houston, Mrs. A.E. Kachel of Houston, and
Mrs. D.D. Day of Ennis; fifteen grandchildren, two great-grandchildren; one
brother, R.A. Ruffin of Sherman; and one sister, Mrs. George Collard of Kerrville.

Serving as pallbearers were R.J. Elliott, Ennis; Joe Wright, R.H. Kelly, E.V.
Hobbs, O.L. Reeve, and Weldon Elliott of Alma.

NOTE:
Willis Cleveland was the son (7th child) of Henry James and Winnie Virginia
Jinks Ruffin.  The family moved to Alma from Taylor County, Georgia around 1886.

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