Ellis County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Ruffin, Alvie  L. 1973
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The Ennis Daily News 1973
Dec 21, 1973   Ennis Daily News
Alvie L. Ruffin

The funeral service for Alvie L. Ruffin, 75, 1502 W. Baldridge, was held at 2
p.m. Friday in Keever Chapel with the Rev. John Dowd, pastor of the First United
Methodist Church, officiating. Interment was in the Rice Cemetery with the
following serving as pallbearers:  Gilbert Wright, O.L. Reeve, J. Hugh Green,
Leslie Harris, Worth Benton, and Dorsey B. Fowler.

Mr. Ruffin died Wednesday night in Navarro Co. Memorial Hospital, Corsicana. He
was born May 3, 1898 in Alma, the son of George and Lula Ruffin. He was reared
in Alma and attended the Alma School.

He was a veteran of World War I serving in Europe with the 144th Infantry,
Company L. After returning from the service he attended Tyler Commercial
College. He was Station Agent for the Texas Electric Railway and owned and
operated a grocery store in Alma for several years.

Nov. 14, 1920 he was married to Miss Iola Lennon of Alma and they lived in Alma
until 1963 when they moved to Ennis. Mr. Ruffin was a member of the First United
Methodist Church of Ennis.

Additional Comments:
Grandson of H.J. and W.V. Jinks Ruffin.

Burial in Rice Cemetery is in Lennon Family Plot.

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