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Obituary of Rufus COURTNEY

Obits: The Celeste Courier, 16 October 1959, Hunt County, Texas

http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/hunt/hunt/obits.html
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/hunt/obits/a-f/rcortney.txt

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CELESTE

Rufus Courtney Services Thursday

    Funeral services for Rufus Courtney, 65, were held Thursday afternoon at
2:00 PM, October 15, 1959, at Hickory Creek Baptist Church.  Rev. Springfield
and Rev. Cox officiated.

    Burial was made in Leonard Cemetery under the direction of Wilson
Funeral Home.  Pallbearers were Homer Bench, Richard Thornton, Vernon
Compton, Rueben Owens, Odell Thornton, and Bruce Young.

    Mr. Courtney, a resident of the Hickory Creek community had been ill for
several months before he passed away at the Veterans Hospital at Bonham on
Tuesday, October 13, 1959.  He was born March 23, 1894 at Alba, Texas, son of
Jess Courtney and Nancy Fowler Courtney.  On June 3, 1922, he married Miss
Jewel Medley and she survives.

    Survivors besides his wife of Hickory Creek are three sisters, Mrs.
Sallie Barron of Coleman, Oklahoma; Mrs. Anna Cook of Mountain View,
Oklahoma; Mrs. Martha Holmes of Snyder, Texas, and several nieces and
nephews.  

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