Obituary of Fay Rudd Chiles
(C. Avis Catalog entry #181)
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Wednesday, 9-17-1980
FAY RUDD CHILES
...retired from Brown Securities
Fay Rudd Chiles, 87, of 5829 El Campo, a retired executive secretary of Brown Securities of the Brown and Root Corp., died Tuesday in a hospital.
Mrs. Chiles will be buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Ala. A memorial service will be announced later.
Mrs. Chiles, a native of Temple, was a descendant of Alexander Hodge, one of the first Anglo-American settlers in Texas. She was a resident of Austin for 43 years before moving to Fort Worth three years ago.
She was a graduate of what is now known as Texas Woman's University in Denton. She was a member of the University Presbyterian Church in Austin and was an officer of the Heritage Society of Austin.
She is survived by a son, Dwight Chiles, Jr. of Dallas; a daughter, Mrs. William W. Collins of Fort Worth; two sister, Madge Rudd of Austin and Mrs. L. Z. Ragsdale of Fall River, Mass.; five grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be sent to a favorite charity.