Wellington Leader March 17, 1927
District Judge dies Monday at Baptist Hospital after short illness.
Home from a distinguished served performed faithfully until the last, Rufus Lee Templeton, first Judge of the 100th Judicial District of Texas, is resting in the Wellington cemetery west of the town to which he came seventeen years ago t cast his fortune with the people of the Panhandle. Monday morning the people of Wellington awoke to learn that their beloved jurist, with the sunlight of a beautiful spring morning in his face, was marching eastward to greet his maker whom he had served zealously throughout life.
He attended the University of Kentucky and later transferred to the University of Texas, where he received his L.L.B. degree in 1910. In June of the same year he came to Wellington to enter the practice of law.
On July 15, 1912 he was married to Miss Cleo Small, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. E. B. Small and a member of one of the pioneer families of this section.
Judge Templeton had been suffering from chronic appendicitis for several years and had been advised several times to undergo an operation. Monday, March 7, while driving to Memphis he turned his car over and the injury burst his appendix. When he was operated on last Saturday night it was found that general peritonitis had set up. He died Monday, after having been able Sunday to say a few words of farewell to his loved ones.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Olivia, 7 and Mary Frances 11; his father, R. H. Templeton, who lives in Tennessee, three brothers, W. E. Templeton of Flintville, J. D. Templeton of Hope, AR, R. H. Templeton of Wellington and a sister, Lorna Benson of Comanche, OK
District Judge dies Monday at Baptist Hospital after short illness.
Home from a distinguished served performed faithfully until the last, Rufus Lee Templeton, first Judge of the 100th Judicial District of Texas, is resting in the Wellington cemetery west of the town to which he came seventeen years ago t cast his fortune with the people of the Panhandle. Monday morning the people of Wellington awoke to learn that their beloved jurist, with the sunlight of a beautiful spring morning in his face, was marching eastward to greet his maker whom he had served zealously throughout life.
He attended the University of Kentucky and later transferred to the University of Texas, where he received his L.L.B. degree in 1910. In June of the same year he came to Wellington to enter the practice of law.
On July 15, 1912 he was married to Miss Cleo Small, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. E. B. Small and a member of one of the pioneer families of this section.
Judge Templeton had been suffering from chronic appendicitis for several years and had been advised several times to undergo an operation. Monday, March 7, while driving to Memphis he turned his car over and the injury burst his appendix. When he was operated on last Saturday night it was found that general peritonitis had set up. He died Monday, after having been able Sunday to say a few words of farewell to his loved ones.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Olivia, 7 and Mary Frances 11; his father, R. H. Templeton, who lives in Tennessee, three brothers, W. E. Templeton of Flintville, J. D. Templeton of Hope, AR, R. H. Templeton of Wellington and a sister, Lorna Benson of Comanche, OK
Wellington Leader March 17, 1927
District Judge dies Monday at Baptist Hospital after short illness.
Home from a distinguished served performed faithfully until the last, Rufus Lee Templeton, first Judge of the 100th Judicial District of Texas, is resting in the Wellington cemetery west of the town to which he came seventeen years ago t cast his fortune with the people of the Panhandle. Monday morning the people of Wellington awoke to learn that their beloved jurist, with the sunlight of a beautiful spring morning in his face, was marching eastward to greet his maker whom he had served zealously throughout life.
He attended the University of Kentucky and later transferred to the University of Texas, where he received his L.L.B. degree in 1910. In June of the same year he came to Wellington to enter the practice of law.
On July 15, 1912 he was married to Miss Cleo Small, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. E. B. Small and a member of one of the pioneer families of this section.
Judge Templeton had been suffering from chronic appendicitis for several years and had been advised several times to undergo an operation. Monday, March 7, while driving to Memphis he turned his car over and the injury burst his appendix. When he was operated on last Saturday night it was found that general peritonitis had set up. He died Monday, after having been able Sunday to say a few words of farewell to his loved ones.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Olivia, 7 and Mary Frances 11; his father, R. H. Templeton, who lives in Tennessee, three brothers, W. E. Templeton of Flintville, J. D. Templeton of Hope, AR, R. H. Templeton of Wellington and a sister, Lorna Benson of Comanche, OK
District Judge dies Monday at Baptist Hospital after short illness.
Home from a distinguished served performed faithfully until the last, Rufus Lee Templeton, first Judge of the 100th Judicial District of Texas, is resting in the Wellington cemetery west of the town to which he came seventeen years ago t cast his fortune with the people of the Panhandle. Monday morning the people of Wellington awoke to learn that their beloved jurist, with the sunlight of a beautiful spring morning in his face, was marching eastward to greet his maker whom he had served zealously throughout life.
He attended the University of Kentucky and later transferred to the University of Texas, where he received his L.L.B. degree in 1910. In June of the same year he came to Wellington to enter the practice of law.
On July 15, 1912 he was married to Miss Cleo Small, the daughter of Judge and Mrs. E. B. Small and a member of one of the pioneer families of this section.
Judge Templeton had been suffering from chronic appendicitis for several years and had been advised several times to undergo an operation. Monday, March 7, while driving to Memphis he turned his car over and the injury burst his appendix. When he was operated on last Saturday night it was found that general peritonitis had set up. He died Monday, after having been able Sunday to say a few words of farewell to his loved ones.
He is survived by his wife and two daughters, Olivia, 7 and Mary Frances 11; his father, R. H. Templeton, who lives in Tennessee, three brothers, W. E. Templeton of Flintville, J. D. Templeton of Hope, AR, R. H. Templeton of Wellington and a sister, Lorna Benson of Comanche, OK
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