Rufus Leslie Fortune (1894-1934) - Find a Grave Memorial

Rufus Leslie Fortune

Birth

24 Oct 1894

Rush Springs, Grady County, Oklahoma, USA

Death

21 Feb 1934 (aged 39)

Norwalk, Los Angeles County, California, USA

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Goleta Cemetery

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Rufus L. Fortune died at age 39 of Bronchopneumonia and Chronic Depressive Psychosis. He was a foreman in an oil refinery and lived in Santa Barbara.

His wife, Jessie Viola Leftwich Fortune remarried in 1936 to Edgar W. Tyus.
Edgar W. Tyus died in 1969 and is buried in Santa Cruz, California.

Jessie Viola Leftwich Fortune Tyus lived to be 100 years of age. She lived in Santa Cruz, California. Her burial information is unknown.

Jessie Viola Fortune Tyus was the mother of a son named T.V. Fortune, who died at the age of 15 in 1933 and is buried with his father, Rufus L. Fortune in Goleta Cemetery, Goleta, California.

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