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Submitted: 11/18/21 • Approved: 11/18/21 • Last Updated: 11/21/21 • R469381-G469381-S3
Ruben E.
December 7, 1910-December 2, 1990
Veda Jane
April 27, 1910-July 27, 1974
Married Oct. 28, 1928
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Ruben
Ruben Ernest May, 79, died Sunday, December 2, 1990.
Services were held Tuesday, December 4, 1990 at 2:30 p.m. in Allison United Methodist Church. Rev. Weldon Rives, pastor, and Rev. F.R. Johnson, pastor of Allison United Pentecostal Church officiated. Burial was in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.
Mr. May, born in Cleburne, moved to Allison in 1978 from Pampa. He married Veda Jane Reid in 1928. She died in 1974. He was a member of International Order of Odd Fellows Lodge and Calvary Baptist Church in Pampa. He married Edna Begert in 1974 at Wheeler.
Survivors include a wife; a son, James May of Petrolia; two daughters, Betty Dyson of Pampa and Barbara Burgess of Quail; a stepson, Edwin Begert of Amarillo; a stepdaughter, Linda Lieb of Stinnett; a brother, John May of Round Rock; 15 grandchildren; and 19 great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Vance Boydston, Bill Donaldson, Larry Elmore, Lee Hall, Kenneth Keys, Bob Zybach.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 56, Thursday, December 6, 1990, Page 1)
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Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Ruben Earnest May
Birth Date: 9 Dec 1910
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Cleburne, Johnson, Texas, USA
Father: Adolph Charles May
Father Birth Place: Austin County
Mother: Mildred Angie Brown
Mother Birth Place: Gonzales County
Mother Residence: Texas Randall Canyon
Texas, Marriage Index, 1824-2014
Name: Ruben E May
Gender: Male
Age: 64
Birth Year: abt 1910
Marriage Date: 16 Dec 1974
Marriage Place: Gray, Texas, USA
Spouse: Edna L Richardson
Spouse Gender: Female
Spouse Age: 58
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Ruben May
Death Date: 2 Dec 1990
Death County: Gray
Gender: Male
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: R. E. May
Last Residence:
79003 Allison, Wheeler, Texas, USA
BORN: 7 Dec 1910
Died: 2 Dec 1990
*Obituary Veda
PAMPA - Services for Mrs. Veda Jane May, 64, who died Saturday at her home here, are pending with Duenkel Funeral Home.
Mrs. May, who was born in Stephenville, married Ruben May in 1928 in Wheeler. She moved with her husband to Pampa in 1948.
She was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church.
She is survived by her husband; one son, James R. of Takoma [sic], Wash.; two daughters, Mrs. Betty Dyson of Skellytown and Mrs. Barbara Burgess of Yelm, Wash.; three sisters, Mrs. May Clark of Bakersfield, Calif., Mrs. Irene Rowe of Marble Falls and Mrs. Juanita Dougherty of Clovis, N.M.; two brothers, Grady Reid of 610 Woodward in Amarillo and Norman Reid of Marble Falls; 10 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - Mon, Jul 29, 1974 - Page 13)
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PAMPA - Funeral services were to be conducted at 3 p.m. today in the Calvary Baptist Church for Mrs. Veda Jane May, 64, who died Saturday at her home here.
The Rev. Mitchell Phillips, pastor, was to officiate. Burial was to be in Wheeler Cemetery, by Duenkel Funeral Home.
Mrs. May had resided in Pampa since 1948.
Survivors include her husband, a son, two daughters, three sisters, two brothers, 10 grandchildren and 31 great-grandchildren.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - Tue, Jul 30, 1974 - Page 37)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Veda May
Death Date: 27 Jul 1974
Death County: Gray
Gender: Female
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Veda Jame May
[Veda Jame Reid]
Birth Date: 28 Apr 1910
Birth Place: Stephenville, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Pampa, Gray, Texas
Father: I W Reid
Mother: Elizabeth Cohoron
Age at Death: 64
Death Date: 27 Jul 1974
Death Place: Pampa, Gray, Texas, USA
Contributed on 11/18/21
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