James Wesley Richards, 47, of 1552 Holley, president of the Richtone Recording and Publishing Company in Dallas, died Monday in a Dallas hospital after a long illness.
Richards, a graduate of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., had written a number of popular songs, including "Do You Ever Think of Me?" and "Are You Contented?". A native of Mississippi, he worked in the entertainment and recording field on the West Coast before moving to Dallas in 1947. He was a member of Kessler Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Miss Lynn Carroll Richards of Dallas; and his mother, Mrs. Pearl Richards, and two sisters, Mrs. Lela May Colvin [sic Coleman] and Mrs. Louise Speed, all of Tallulah, La.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m Tuesday in the Sparkman-Brand Funeral Chapel, 2115 Ross, with the Rev. John W. Morphis of the Kessler Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Published in The Dallas Morning News (TX), Tuesday, September 6, 1955
Richards, a graduate of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., had written a number of popular songs, including "Do You Ever Think of Me?" and "Are You Contented?". A native of Mississippi, he worked in the entertainment and recording field on the West Coast before moving to Dallas in 1947. He was a member of Kessler Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Miss Lynn Carroll Richards of Dallas; and his mother, Mrs. Pearl Richards, and two sisters, Mrs. Lela May Colvin [sic Coleman] and Mrs. Louise Speed, all of Tallulah, La.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m Tuesday in the Sparkman-Brand Funeral Chapel, 2115 Ross, with the Rev. John W. Morphis of the Kessler Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Published in The Dallas Morning News (TX), Tuesday, September 6, 1955
James Wesley Richards, 47, of 1552 Holley, president of the Richtone Recording and Publishing Company in Dallas, died Monday in a Dallas hospital after a long illness.
Richards, a graduate of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., had written a number of popular songs, including "Do You Ever Think of Me?" and "Are You Contented?". A native of Mississippi, he worked in the entertainment and recording field on the West Coast before moving to Dallas in 1947. He was a member of Kessler Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Miss Lynn Carroll Richards of Dallas; and his mother, Mrs. Pearl Richards, and two sisters, Mrs. Lela May Colvin [sic Coleman] and Mrs. Louise Speed, all of Tallulah, La.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m Tuesday in the Sparkman-Brand Funeral Chapel, 2115 Ross, with the Rev. John W. Morphis of the Kessler Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Published in The Dallas Morning News (TX), Tuesday, September 6, 1955
Richards, a graduate of Stanford University at Palo Alto, Calif., had written a number of popular songs, including "Do You Ever Think of Me?" and "Are You Contented?". A native of Mississippi, he worked in the entertainment and recording field on the West Coast before moving to Dallas in 1947. He was a member of Kessler Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Miss Lynn Carroll Richards of Dallas; and his mother, Mrs. Pearl Richards, and two sisters, Mrs. Lela May Colvin [sic Coleman] and Mrs. Louise Speed, all of Tallulah, La.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m Tuesday in the Sparkman-Brand Funeral Chapel, 2115 Ross, with the Rev. John W. Morphis of the Kessler Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.
Published in The Dallas Morning News (TX), Tuesday, September 6, 1955
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