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Submitted: 4/9/21 • Approved: 4/9/21 • Last Updated: 4/12/21 • R406875-G0-S3
October 25, 1866 - July 4, 1954
*Obituary
RITES SET AT ROBY TUESDAY FOR RANCHER E. C. CAVE, 87
Roby, July 5 - Funeral for E. C. (Ras) Cave, 87, early-day cowboy and rancher, will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church at Roby. Officiating will be Dr. Lawrence Hayes, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Rotan, assisted by the Rev. R. M. Parsley, pastor of the church at Cross Roads. Burial will be in Roby Cemetery under direction of Weathersbee Funeral Home of Rotan.
Mr. Cave died Sunday afternoon in Callan Hospital at Rotan following several weeks of illness.
Until the time of his illness, he was still actively engaged in ranching. His ranch is located eight miles west of Roby in the Sardis community. It is the original ranch land filed on by his father in 1882. Mr. Cave had lived there for the past 59 years.
Contributed on 4/9/21 by texasfindagraver
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