Obituary of Gene Ruddell

Graveside services for Gene Wesley Ruddell, 78, Longview, will be held at 3:00 p.m. Thursday, March 1, at Eagle Creek Cemetery in Harleton with Reverend Don Dodge officiating under direction of Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home, Overton. Mr. Ruddell died Monday, February 26, 2007 in a Longview hospital. He was born June 5, 1928 in Shreveport Louisiana to the late King Wesley and Frankie M. Breashear Ruddell. He is a veteran of the US Army and moved to Longview in 1942. He was a brick mason and he did the brickwork on the Longview Mall. He was a Methodist and had studied the Bible through the church. He was preceded in death by a stepson, Donald Jones in November of 1988, and by his wife in August, 1983, Grace N. Ruddell. He is survived by four daughters and spouses, Mildred Roberts of Peoria, Arizona, Kay and Phil Buckolt of Sulphur Springs, Renee Lockridge of Kilgore, and Sylvia and Dale Hand of Gladewater; seventeen grandchildren, including, Karen, Debbie, David, Jamie, Tammy, Matthew, Meredith, Laura, Julie, Ashley, Gary, Mark, Jimmy, and Cody.