Richard Clarke Busby, 87, retired attorney, who worked in Memphis for more than 50 years, died yesterday at Memphis Health Care Center.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. He was a former Methodist, and helped found Hollywood United Methodist Church and was the former teacher of the Strand Bible Class which met at the old strand Movie Theater and a member of First Evangelical Church. He was a graduate Memphis University School, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va., and the University of Mississippi Law School at Oxford, Mississippi, a veteran of World War I, and a member of the Shelby County and American Bar Associations.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Fordyce Nixon Busby; two daughters, Mrs. Dixie Power of Memphis and Mrs. Virginia Emes of Washington D.C., and three grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to First Evangelical Church of the American Diabetes Assoc.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. He was a former Methodist, and helped found Hollywood United Methodist Church and was the former teacher of the Strand Bible Class which met at the old strand Movie Theater and a member of First Evangelical Church. He was a graduate Memphis University School, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va., and the University of Mississippi Law School at Oxford, Mississippi, a veteran of World War I, and a member of the Shelby County and American Bar Associations.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Fordyce Nixon Busby; two daughters, Mrs. Dixie Power of Memphis and Mrs. Virginia Emes of Washington D.C., and three grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to First Evangelical Church of the American Diabetes Assoc.
Richard Clarke Busby, 87, retired attorney, who worked in Memphis for more than 50 years, died yesterday at Memphis Health Care Center.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. He was a former Methodist, and helped found Hollywood United Methodist Church and was the former teacher of the Strand Bible Class which met at the old strand Movie Theater and a member of First Evangelical Church. He was a graduate Memphis University School, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va., and the University of Mississippi Law School at Oxford, Mississippi, a veteran of World War I, and a member of the Shelby County and American Bar Associations.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Fordyce Nixon Busby; two daughters, Mrs. Dixie Power of Memphis and Mrs. Virginia Emes of Washington D.C., and three grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to First Evangelical Church of the American Diabetes Assoc.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home Poplar Chapel with burial in Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown. He was a former Methodist, and helped found Hollywood United Methodist Church and was the former teacher of the Strand Bible Class which met at the old strand Movie Theater and a member of First Evangelical Church. He was a graduate Memphis University School, the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va., and the University of Mississippi Law School at Oxford, Mississippi, a veteran of World War I, and a member of the Shelby County and American Bar Associations.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Fordyce Nixon Busby; two daughters, Mrs. Dixie Power of Memphis and Mrs. Virginia Emes of Washington D.C., and three grandchildren. The family requests that any memorials be sent to First Evangelical Church of the American Diabetes Assoc.
