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Missouri Death Certificate #24806
Name: Roy W Rucker
Sex: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Usual Occupation: Lawyer
Death Age: 73 years
Birth Date: May 12, 1894
Birth Place: Lewisberg, West Virginia
Death Date: July 30, 1957
Death Place: Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; Cresthaven Conv. Home (5 yrs)
Cause of Death: Terminal Bronchopneumonia; Cerebral Hemorrhage; General Vascular Sclerosis; Arterial Hypertension (10 years).
Father: W. W. Rucker
Mother: _______ Scott
Spouse: Ester Rucker
Burial: Cremation; DWN Crematory, Kansas City, Mo.
Informant: Mrs. Dora Doan, Crsthaven conv. House
∼PSALM IS READ AT RITES
ROY W. RUCKER HAS ASK-
ED SIMPLE SERVICE.
Lyman Field and John T.
Barker Have Only Parts in
Funeral of Trial Lawyer
Services for Roy W. Rucker, former prosecuting attorney of two Missouri counties, who was widely known in Missouri as a trial lawyer, were held yesterday at the Stine & McClure chapel.
More than 100 persons, including many lawyers, attended the services. A daughter, Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, Washington, and a son, William Waller Rucker, jr., Tampa, Fla., represented the family. Judge Sam C. Blair, Jefferson City, of the Cole County Circuit court, attended for his brother, Gov. James T. Blair.
The services were conducted by lyman Field, president of the Kansas City police board. John T. Barker, former attorney general of Missouri, opened the services by reading the Twenty-third Psalm.
In Fulfillment of Pledge.
Before he began reading , Barker said, "I promised the deceased that at his death I would read the Twenty-third Psalm, and in obedience to that promise I am here."
The reading was followed by a eulogy by Field.\
"Keen witted, friendly, fearless, able, gay, eloquent, inquisitive, companionable, life-loving and lovable Roy Rucker is with us no more in person," Field said. "The corporeal form and substance is gone but the memory of him, of what he stood for, what he lived by will remain for each of us--and to each in one's own fashion."
A Zest in Living.
Field said that Rucker lived a full and interesting life and possessed a keen and challenging wit and the sheer enjoyment of living, he got a tremendous zest out of being alive.
"His thinking and views about much of life and the affairs of men was often unorthodox, alwasy stimulating," Field said. "For example, it was his expressed desire that these inevitable services today be donducted without pretense, with utmost simplicity, greatest candow and by a lay friend.
The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri
Monday, June 3, 1957
∼LAWYER ROY RUCKER DIES;
FATHER OF MRS. BARKLEY
Kansas City, Mo., July 31 (AP)--Roy Rucker, father of Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, died at a convalescent home yesterday. He had been ill since 1947, when he suffered a stroke. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Rucker practiced law about 20 years in Kansas City. He had served as prosecuting attorney of two Missouri counties and as an assisteant Attorney General. He was born near White Sulphur Sprinds, W. Va., and was a graduate of West Virginia University.
In addition to Mrs. Barkley, widow of the former Vice President and United States senator from Kentucky, Mr. Rucker is survived by his wife, Mrs. Estle Rucker, a former St. Louisan, now living in Schroon Lake, N.Y.; a son, William W. Rucker, Tampa Fla., and another daughter, Mrs. Gaylord B. Lyon, Kodiak, Alaska.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis, Missouri
Friday, May 31, 1957∼
Missouri Death Certificate #24806
Name: Roy W Rucker
Sex: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Usual Occupation: Lawyer
Death Age: 73 years
Birth Date: May 12, 1894
Birth Place: Lewisberg, West Virginia
Death Date: July 30, 1957
Death Place: Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; Cresthaven Conv. Home (5 yrs)
Cause of Death: Terminal Bronchopneumonia; Cerebral Hemorrhage; General Vascular Sclerosis; Arterial Hypertension (10 years).
Father: W. W. Rucker
Mother: _______ Scott
Spouse: Ester Rucker
Burial: Cremation; DWN Crematory, Kansas City, Mo.
Informant: Mrs. Dora Doan, Crsthaven conv. House
∼PSALM IS READ AT RITES
ROY W. RUCKER HAS ASK-
ED SIMPLE SERVICE.
Lyman Field and John T.
Barker Have Only Parts in
Funeral of Trial Lawyer
Services for Roy W. Rucker, former prosecuting attorney of two Missouri counties, who was widely known in Missouri as a trial lawyer, were held yesterday at the Stine & McClure chapel.
More than 100 persons, including many lawyers, attended the services. A daughter, Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, Washington, and a son, William Waller Rucker, jr., Tampa, Fla., represented the family. Judge Sam C. Blair, Jefferson City, of the Cole County Circuit court, attended for his brother, Gov. James T. Blair.
The services were conducted by lyman Field, president of the Kansas City police board. John T. Barker, former attorney general of Missouri, opened the services by reading the Twenty-third Psalm.
In Fulfillment of Pledge.
Before he began reading , Barker said, "I promised the deceased that at his death I would read the Twenty-third Psalm, and in obedience to that promise I am here."
The reading was followed by a eulogy by Field.\
"Keen witted, friendly, fearless, able, gay, eloquent, inquisitive, companionable, life-loving and lovable Roy Rucker is with us no more in person," Field said. "The corporeal form and substance is gone but the memory of him, of what he stood for, what he lived by will remain for each of us--and to each in one's own fashion."
A Zest in Living.
Field said that Rucker lived a full and interesting life and possessed a keen and challenging wit and the sheer enjoyment of living, he got a tremendous zest out of being alive.
"His thinking and views about much of life and the affairs of men was often unorthodox, alwasy stimulating," Field said. "For example, it was his expressed desire that these inevitable services today be donducted without pretense, with utmost simplicity, greatest candow and by a lay friend.
The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri
Monday, June 3, 1957
∼LAWYER ROY RUCKER DIES;
FATHER OF MRS. BARKLEY
Kansas City, Mo., July 31 (AP)--Roy Rucker, father of Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, died at a convalescent home yesterday. He had been ill since 1947, when he suffered a stroke. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Rucker practiced law about 20 years in Kansas City. He had served as prosecuting attorney of two Missouri counties and as an assisteant Attorney General. He was born near White Sulphur Sprinds, W. Va., and was a graduate of West Virginia University.
In addition to Mrs. Barkley, widow of the former Vice President and United States senator from Kentucky, Mr. Rucker is survived by his wife, Mrs. Estle Rucker, a former St. Louisan, now living in Schroon Lake, N.Y.; a son, William W. Rucker, Tampa Fla., and another daughter, Mrs. Gaylord B. Lyon, Kodiak, Alaska.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis, Missouri
Friday, May 31, 1957∼
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Missouri Death Certificate #24806
Name: Roy W Rucker
Sex: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Usual Occupation: Lawyer
Death Age: 73 years
Birth Date: May 12, 1894
Birth Place: Lewisberg, West Virginia
Death Date: July 30, 1957
Death Place: Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; Cresthaven Conv. Home (5 yrs)
Cause of Death: Terminal Bronchopneumonia; Cerebral Hemorrhage; General Vascular Sclerosis; Arterial Hypertension (10 years).
Father: W. W. Rucker
Mother: _______ Scott
Spouse: Ester Rucker
Burial: Cremation; DWN Crematory, Kansas City, Mo.
Informant: Mrs. Dora Doan, Crsthaven conv. House
∼PSALM IS READ AT RITES
ROY W. RUCKER HAS ASK-
ED SIMPLE SERVICE.
Lyman Field and John T.
Barker Have Only Parts in
Funeral of Trial Lawyer
Services for Roy W. Rucker, former prosecuting attorney of two Missouri counties, who was widely known in Missouri as a trial lawyer, were held yesterday at the Stine & McClure chapel.
More than 100 persons, including many lawyers, attended the services. A daughter, Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, Washington, and a son, William Waller Rucker, jr., Tampa, Fla., represented the family. Judge Sam C. Blair, Jefferson City, of the Cole County Circuit court, attended for his brother, Gov. James T. Blair.
The services were conducted by lyman Field, president of the Kansas City police board. John T. Barker, former attorney general of Missouri, opened the services by reading the Twenty-third Psalm.
In Fulfillment of Pledge.
Before he began reading , Barker said, "I promised the deceased that at his death I would read the Twenty-third Psalm, and in obedience to that promise I am here."
The reading was followed by a eulogy by Field.\
"Keen witted, friendly, fearless, able, gay, eloquent, inquisitive, companionable, life-loving and lovable Roy Rucker is with us no more in person," Field said. "The corporeal form and substance is gone but the memory of him, of what he stood for, what he lived by will remain for each of us--and to each in one's own fashion."
A Zest in Living.
Field said that Rucker lived a full and interesting life and possessed a keen and challenging wit and the sheer enjoyment of living, he got a tremendous zest out of being alive.
"His thinking and views about much of life and the affairs of men was often unorthodox, alwasy stimulating," Field said. "For example, it was his expressed desire that these inevitable services today be donducted without pretense, with utmost simplicity, greatest candow and by a lay friend.
The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri
Monday, June 3, 1957
∼LAWYER ROY RUCKER DIES;
FATHER OF MRS. BARKLEY
Kansas City, Mo., July 31 (AP)--Roy Rucker, father of Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, died at a convalescent home yesterday. He had been ill since 1947, when he suffered a stroke. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Rucker practiced law about 20 years in Kansas City. He had served as prosecuting attorney of two Missouri counties and as an assisteant Attorney General. He was born near White Sulphur Sprinds, W. Va., and was a graduate of West Virginia University.
In addition to Mrs. Barkley, widow of the former Vice President and United States senator from Kentucky, Mr. Rucker is survived by his wife, Mrs. Estle Rucker, a former St. Louisan, now living in Schroon Lake, N.Y.; a son, William W. Rucker, Tampa Fla., and another daughter, Mrs. Gaylord B. Lyon, Kodiak, Alaska.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis, Missouri
Friday, May 31, 1957∼
Missouri Death Certificate #24806
Name: Roy W Rucker
Sex: Male
Race: White
Marital Status: Widowed
Usual Occupation: Lawyer
Death Age: 73 years
Birth Date: May 12, 1894
Birth Place: Lewisberg, West Virginia
Death Date: July 30, 1957
Death Place: Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri; Cresthaven Conv. Home (5 yrs)
Cause of Death: Terminal Bronchopneumonia; Cerebral Hemorrhage; General Vascular Sclerosis; Arterial Hypertension (10 years).
Father: W. W. Rucker
Mother: _______ Scott
Spouse: Ester Rucker
Burial: Cremation; DWN Crematory, Kansas City, Mo.
Informant: Mrs. Dora Doan, Crsthaven conv. House
∼PSALM IS READ AT RITES
ROY W. RUCKER HAS ASK-
ED SIMPLE SERVICE.
Lyman Field and John T.
Barker Have Only Parts in
Funeral of Trial Lawyer
Services for Roy W. Rucker, former prosecuting attorney of two Missouri counties, who was widely known in Missouri as a trial lawyer, were held yesterday at the Stine & McClure chapel.
More than 100 persons, including many lawyers, attended the services. A daughter, Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, Washington, and a son, William Waller Rucker, jr., Tampa, Fla., represented the family. Judge Sam C. Blair, Jefferson City, of the Cole County Circuit court, attended for his brother, Gov. James T. Blair.
The services were conducted by lyman Field, president of the Kansas City police board. John T. Barker, former attorney general of Missouri, opened the services by reading the Twenty-third Psalm.
In Fulfillment of Pledge.
Before he began reading , Barker said, "I promised the deceased that at his death I would read the Twenty-third Psalm, and in obedience to that promise I am here."
The reading was followed by a eulogy by Field.\
"Keen witted, friendly, fearless, able, gay, eloquent, inquisitive, companionable, life-loving and lovable Roy Rucker is with us no more in person," Field said. "The corporeal form and substance is gone but the memory of him, of what he stood for, what he lived by will remain for each of us--and to each in one's own fashion."
A Zest in Living.
Field said that Rucker lived a full and interesting life and possessed a keen and challenging wit and the sheer enjoyment of living, he got a tremendous zest out of being alive.
"His thinking and views about much of life and the affairs of men was often unorthodox, alwasy stimulating," Field said. "For example, it was his expressed desire that these inevitable services today be donducted without pretense, with utmost simplicity, greatest candow and by a lay friend.
The Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri
Monday, June 3, 1957
∼LAWYER ROY RUCKER DIES;
FATHER OF MRS. BARKLEY
Kansas City, Mo., July 31 (AP)--Roy Rucker, father of Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, died at a convalescent home yesterday. He had been ill since 1947, when he suffered a stroke. He was 73 years old.
Mr. Rucker practiced law about 20 years in Kansas City. He had served as prosecuting attorney of two Missouri counties and as an assisteant Attorney General. He was born near White Sulphur Sprinds, W. Va., and was a graduate of West Virginia University.
In addition to Mrs. Barkley, widow of the former Vice President and United States senator from Kentucky, Mr. Rucker is survived by his wife, Mrs. Estle Rucker, a former St. Louisan, now living in Schroon Lake, N.Y.; a son, William W. Rucker, Tampa Fla., and another daughter, Mrs. Gaylord B. Lyon, Kodiak, Alaska.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis, Missouri
Friday, May 31, 1957∼
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