Sweetwater - Rufus H. Books, 84, died at 9 a.m. Friday in Shannon Hospital in San Angelo following a short illness.
Funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in Patterson-McCoy Chapel of Memories with the Rev. John McNamara officiating. Burial will be in Sweetwater Cemetery.
He was born in Arkansas on June 29, 1884 [sic] and was a retired barber. He moved to Sweetwater from San Angelo in 1959.
Survivors include a son, Morris of San Angelo; one daughter, Mrs. Nancy Bryson of Beaumont; three granddaughters and three great-grandchildren.
From The Abilene (TX) Reporter-News Saturday, March 22, 1969
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Tom Green County, Texas Death Certificate
Name: Rufus H Books
Sex: Male
Age: 85
Death Date: 21 Mar 1969
Death Place: Shannon West Memorial Hospital, San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure; Pulmonary Emphysema
Birth Date: 29 Jun 1883
Birthplace: Arkansas
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Name: Peter Books
Father's Sex: Male
Event Type: Death
Occupation: Barber
Residence: 2465 Harvard, San Angelo, Texas
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater Cemetery
Date: 21 Mar 1969
Informant: Morris S. Books (son)
Certificate Number: 21996
Digital Folder Number: 005144862
Microfilm Number: 2137327
Image Number: 01887
Citing this Record
"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KS1Z-8RZ : 27 March 2023), Rufus H Books, 1969.
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Sweetwater - Rufus H. Books, 84, died at 9 a.m. Friday in Shannon Hospital in San Angelo following a short illness.
Funeral will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in Patterson-McCoy Chapel of Memories with the Rev. John McNamara officiating. Burial will be in Sweetwater Cemetery.
He was born in Arkansas on June 29, 1884 [sic] and was a retired barber. He moved to Sweetwater from San Angelo in 1959.
Survivors include a son, Morris of San Angelo; one daughter, Mrs. Nancy Bryson of Beaumont; three granddaughters and three great-grandchildren.
From The Abilene (TX) Reporter-News Saturday, March 22, 1969
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Tom Green County, Texas Death Certificate
Name: Rufus H Books
Sex: Male
Age: 85
Death Date: 21 Mar 1969
Death Place: Shannon West Memorial Hospital, San Angelo, Tom Green, Texas, United States
Cause of Death: Congestive Heart Failure; Pulmonary Emphysema
Birth Date: 29 Jun 1883
Birthplace: Arkansas
Marital Status: Widowed
Father's Name: Peter Books
Father's Sex: Male
Event Type: Death
Occupation: Barber
Residence: 2465 Harvard, San Angelo, Texas
Burial/Removal: Sweetwater Cemetery
Date: 21 Mar 1969
Informant: Morris S. Books (son)
Certificate Number: 21996
Digital Folder Number: 005144862
Microfilm Number: 2137327
Image Number: 01887
Citing this Record
"Texas Deaths, 1890-1976", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KS1Z-8RZ : 27 March 2023), Rufus H Books, 1969.
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