Obituary of Margaret Mooring Rudd
(C. Avis Catalog entry #780)
(Document ID #553
Mrs. James Rudd,
Former Templeite,
Dies At Austin
AUSTIN, Jan. 28—Funeral for Mrs. James Rudd, 1509 Rainbow Bend, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the University Presbyterian church here with Dr. W. M. Logan officiating. The body is at the Cook funeral home.
Mrs. Rudd, 86, died in a local hospital early Saturday after a long illness. She was born in Grimes county and was a descendent of one of the members of Moses Austin's colony. She had been a lifelong resident of Temple until 1935, at which time she moved to Austin.
Mrs. Rudd was active in many patriotic organizations, having served on the state board of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas in the early 1920's. She was an honorary member of the William B. Travis chapter of the DRT and of the Albert Sidney Johnston chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was past regent of the Betty Martin chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Temple, and was a member of Thankful Hubbard DAR of Austin. She was a member of the University Presbyterian church and a life member of the Woman's Auxiliary of the church.
Survivors are four daughters, Mrs. Dwight Chiles of Austin, Miss Mae Rudd of Spartanburg, S. C, Mrs. T. J. McElhenney of Austin, and Mrs. L. V. Ragsdale of Fall River, Mass., one sister, Mrs. J. Thomas Hall of Nacogdoches; seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Burial will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Temple.