Lee Rath's Rites Slated
Services for Lee Allen Rath, 62, who died Monday in a Wichita Falls hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Owens & Brumley Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. J. C. Wade, pastor of Central Baptist Church officiating.
Burial will be in East View Memorial Park in Vernon.
Pallbearers will include Orvalla Rutledge, K. E. Burch, Bill Thompson, Jim Maag, James Long and Otis Culver.
Born Jan. 5, 1907, in Fairview, Majors County, Oklahoma to the parents of Ervin Charles and Laura Luella Haun Rath, Rath had lived in Wichita Falls for nine years. He resided at 3025 Stearns and was a heavy equipment operator.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann and a son, Tony, of Wichita Falls; three daughters, Mrs. K. E. (Hazel Ellen) Burch and Mrs. Bill (Mary Alice) Thompson, both of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Clarence (Lawanda Lee) Mayberry of Fort Worth; stepdaughter, Mrs. James (Jyme) Long of Quanah; a stepson, B. G. Gracy of El Paso, Tex, five brothers, Cecil of Ponca City, Okla., Eddie of Corona, Calif., Jack of Long Beach, Calif., Carl of Blackwell, Okla., and Jim of Arkansas City, Kan.; a sister, Mrs. Joe (Margie) Ertman of Orange, Calif., his stepmother, Mrs. Earl (Lena) Treadaway of Nardin, Okla.; 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Courtesy of Wichita Falls Record News
Tuesday, January 14, 1969
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He later moved to Wilbarger, Texas area, where about 1930 he married Jewell Myrtle Swanson. They had four children: three daughters and one son, Lawanda Lee, Mary Alice, Hazel Ellen, and Toney Robert Rath.
On November 2,1940, he was given the number 1508 on the World War II draft call list, Vernon, Texas.
Lee, along with three other men invented TREE ERADICATOR AND SUBSOILER, July 23, 1947, Serial No. 762953. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE No.2,576,361, Harrold, Texas.
He was preceded in death by his first wife Jewell Myrtle and his parents.
He later married Mary Ann Dunn Gracy Rath.
Throughout his adult life, he was a Heavy Equipment Operator.
He died in Bethania Hospital, Wichita Falls, Texas, of Pulmonary Embolus and complications of Pneumonia.
He was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Texas.
Services for Lee Allen Rath, 62, who died Monday in a Wichita Falls hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Owens & Brumley Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. J. C. Wade, pastor of Central Baptist Church officiating.
Burial will be in East View Memorial Park in Vernon.
Pallbearers will include Orvalla Rutledge, K. E. Burch, Bill Thompson, Jim Maag, James Long and Otis Culver.
Born Jan. 5, 1907, in Fairview, Majors County, Oklahoma to the parents of Ervin Charles and Laura Luella Haun Rath, Rath had lived in Wichita Falls for nine years. He resided at 3025 Stearns and was a heavy equipment operator.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann and a son, Tony, of Wichita Falls; three daughters, Mrs. K. E. (Hazel Ellen) Burch and Mrs. Bill (Mary Alice) Thompson, both of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Clarence (Lawanda Lee) Mayberry of Fort Worth; stepdaughter, Mrs. James (Jyme) Long of Quanah; a stepson, B. G. Gracy of El Paso, Tex, five brothers, Cecil of Ponca City, Okla., Eddie of Corona, Calif., Jack of Long Beach, Calif., Carl of Blackwell, Okla., and Jim of Arkansas City, Kan.; a sister, Mrs. Joe (Margie) Ertman of Orange, Calif., his stepmother, Mrs. Earl (Lena) Treadaway of Nardin, Okla.; 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Courtesy of Wichita Falls Record News
Tuesday, January 14, 1969
Page 3
He later moved to Wilbarger, Texas area, where about 1930 he married Jewell Myrtle Swanson. They had four children: three daughters and one son, Lawanda Lee, Mary Alice, Hazel Ellen, and Toney Robert Rath.
On November 2,1940, he was given the number 1508 on the World War II draft call list, Vernon, Texas.
Lee, along with three other men invented TREE ERADICATOR AND SUBSOILER, July 23, 1947, Serial No. 762953. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE No.2,576,361, Harrold, Texas.
He was preceded in death by his first wife Jewell Myrtle and his parents.
He later married Mary Ann Dunn Gracy Rath.
Throughout his adult life, he was a Heavy Equipment Operator.
He died in Bethania Hospital, Wichita Falls, Texas, of Pulmonary Embolus and complications of Pneumonia.
He was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Texas.
Lee Rath's Rites Slated
Services for Lee Allen Rath, 62, who died Monday in a Wichita Falls hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Owens & Brumley Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. J. C. Wade, pastor of Central Baptist Church officiating.
Burial will be in East View Memorial Park in Vernon.
Pallbearers will include Orvalla Rutledge, K. E. Burch, Bill Thompson, Jim Maag, James Long and Otis Culver.
Born Jan. 5, 1907, in Fairview, Majors County, Oklahoma to the parents of Ervin Charles and Laura Luella Haun Rath, Rath had lived in Wichita Falls for nine years. He resided at 3025 Stearns and was a heavy equipment operator.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann and a son, Tony, of Wichita Falls; three daughters, Mrs. K. E. (Hazel Ellen) Burch and Mrs. Bill (Mary Alice) Thompson, both of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Clarence (Lawanda Lee) Mayberry of Fort Worth; stepdaughter, Mrs. James (Jyme) Long of Quanah; a stepson, B. G. Gracy of El Paso, Tex, five brothers, Cecil of Ponca City, Okla., Eddie of Corona, Calif., Jack of Long Beach, Calif., Carl of Blackwell, Okla., and Jim of Arkansas City, Kan.; a sister, Mrs. Joe (Margie) Ertman of Orange, Calif., his stepmother, Mrs. Earl (Lena) Treadaway of Nardin, Okla.; 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Courtesy of Wichita Falls Record News
Tuesday, January 14, 1969
Page 3
He later moved to Wilbarger, Texas area, where about 1930 he married Jewell Myrtle Swanson. They had four children: three daughters and one son, Lawanda Lee, Mary Alice, Hazel Ellen, and Toney Robert Rath.
On November 2,1940, he was given the number 1508 on the World War II draft call list, Vernon, Texas.
Lee, along with three other men invented TREE ERADICATOR AND SUBSOILER, July 23, 1947, Serial No. 762953. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE No.2,576,361, Harrold, Texas.
He was preceded in death by his first wife Jewell Myrtle and his parents.
He later married Mary Ann Dunn Gracy Rath.
Throughout his adult life, he was a Heavy Equipment Operator.
He died in Bethania Hospital, Wichita Falls, Texas, of Pulmonary Embolus and complications of Pneumonia.
He was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Texas.
Services for Lee Allen Rath, 62, who died Monday in a Wichita Falls hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday from Owens & Brumley Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. J. C. Wade, pastor of Central Baptist Church officiating.
Burial will be in East View Memorial Park in Vernon.
Pallbearers will include Orvalla Rutledge, K. E. Burch, Bill Thompson, Jim Maag, James Long and Otis Culver.
Born Jan. 5, 1907, in Fairview, Majors County, Oklahoma to the parents of Ervin Charles and Laura Luella Haun Rath, Rath had lived in Wichita Falls for nine years. He resided at 3025 Stearns and was a heavy equipment operator.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Ann and a son, Tony, of Wichita Falls; three daughters, Mrs. K. E. (Hazel Ellen) Burch and Mrs. Bill (Mary Alice) Thompson, both of Oklahoma City, and Mrs. Clarence (Lawanda Lee) Mayberry of Fort Worth; stepdaughter, Mrs. James (Jyme) Long of Quanah; a stepson, B. G. Gracy of El Paso, Tex, five brothers, Cecil of Ponca City, Okla., Eddie of Corona, Calif., Jack of Long Beach, Calif., Carl of Blackwell, Okla., and Jim of Arkansas City, Kan.; a sister, Mrs. Joe (Margie) Ertman of Orange, Calif., his stepmother, Mrs. Earl (Lena) Treadaway of Nardin, Okla.; 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Courtesy of Wichita Falls Record News
Tuesday, January 14, 1969
Page 3
He later moved to Wilbarger, Texas area, where about 1930 he married Jewell Myrtle Swanson. They had four children: three daughters and one son, Lawanda Lee, Mary Alice, Hazel Ellen, and Toney Robert Rath.
On November 2,1940, he was given the number 1508 on the World War II draft call list, Vernon, Texas.
Lee, along with three other men invented TREE ERADICATOR AND SUBSOILER, July 23, 1947, Serial No. 762953. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE No.2,576,361, Harrold, Texas.
He was preceded in death by his first wife Jewell Myrtle and his parents.
He later married Mary Ann Dunn Gracy Rath.
Throughout his adult life, he was a Heavy Equipment Operator.
He died in Bethania Hospital, Wichita Falls, Texas, of Pulmonary Embolus and complications of Pneumonia.
He was buried in Eastview Memorial Park, Vernon, Texas.
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