Obituary Gonzales Inquirer July 30, 1942
Last Rites Held for R. A. Granger, Jr. Thursday Morning
Young and old friends of R. A. Granger, Jr., eighteen year old high school athlete, gathered at the W. W. Granger home Thursday morning for funeral rites and last tributes to the boy who died Wednesday.
Rev. Hal C. Wingo conducted the services, using as his text II Timothy, 1:10 with its message of immortality after death as brought out into the full light by the Saviour in His resurrection. Christ did not theorize about death but gave the gospel forged in the furnace of fact. In his death he abolished death and thereby became a Saviour of mankind, were the sacred words of solace brought the mourning family and young friends.
Miss Allen Helms sand "The Pearly White City," and with Berry Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Claude F. O'Neall sang "I Need Thee Every Hour." At the IOOF cemetery where interment was made, they sang "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
Pallbearers were Houston DuBose, Jimmie Helms, Jack Shock, Bill Boothe, J. C. Glover, and Milton Tieken. Outstanding in the large floral offerings from the host of friends of the young boy was a beautiful arrangement of flowers shaped as a football with the letters "Apaches" on the side.
Granger was a captain of the high school football team last season and Star pitcher for the baseball team this spring. He had been here only since December, 1940, but in the short time he had lived in Gonzales had made many friends among the younger circles in particular who were shocked and saddened by his death.
He had been I'll about two weeks. He succumbed in the hospital here Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock.
Born in San Antonio, December 24, 1923, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Granger, he spent his young boyhood in that city. In 1930 he moved with his parents to Fairfax, Okla., where he lived until December 5, 2940, when they moved to Gonzales.
At the age of 15 he professed faith in Christ, uniting with the Navy Reserve Baptist church near Fairfax. He was a member of the Young Mens Class of First Baptist Sunday School here.
Surviving besides his parents are two brothers, Gurnee and Ernest, his grandfather, W. W. Granger, other relatives and a host of friends.
Last Rites Held for R. A. Granger, Jr. Thursday Morning
Young and old friends of R. A. Granger, Jr., eighteen year old high school athlete, gathered at the W. W. Granger home Thursday morning for funeral rites and last tributes to the boy who died Wednesday.
Rev. Hal C. Wingo conducted the services, using as his text II Timothy, 1:10 with its message of immortality after death as brought out into the full light by the Saviour in His resurrection. Christ did not theorize about death but gave the gospel forged in the furnace of fact. In his death he abolished death and thereby became a Saviour of mankind, were the sacred words of solace brought the mourning family and young friends.
Miss Allen Helms sand "The Pearly White City," and with Berry Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Claude F. O'Neall sang "I Need Thee Every Hour." At the IOOF cemetery where interment was made, they sang "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
Pallbearers were Houston DuBose, Jimmie Helms, Jack Shock, Bill Boothe, J. C. Glover, and Milton Tieken. Outstanding in the large floral offerings from the host of friends of the young boy was a beautiful arrangement of flowers shaped as a football with the letters "Apaches" on the side.
Granger was a captain of the high school football team last season and Star pitcher for the baseball team this spring. He had been here only since December, 1940, but in the short time he had lived in Gonzales had made many friends among the younger circles in particular who were shocked and saddened by his death.
He had been I'll about two weeks. He succumbed in the hospital here Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock.
Born in San Antonio, December 24, 1923, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Granger, he spent his young boyhood in that city. In 1930 he moved with his parents to Fairfax, Okla., where he lived until December 5, 2940, when they moved to Gonzales.
At the age of 15 he professed faith in Christ, uniting with the Navy Reserve Baptist church near Fairfax. He was a member of the Young Mens Class of First Baptist Sunday School here.
Surviving besides his parents are two brothers, Gurnee and Ernest, his grandfather, W. W. Granger, other relatives and a host of friends.
Obituary Gonzales Inquirer July 30, 1942
Last Rites Held for R. A. Granger, Jr. Thursday Morning
Young and old friends of R. A. Granger, Jr., eighteen year old high school athlete, gathered at the W. W. Granger home Thursday morning for funeral rites and last tributes to the boy who died Wednesday.
Rev. Hal C. Wingo conducted the services, using as his text II Timothy, 1:10 with its message of immortality after death as brought out into the full light by the Saviour in His resurrection. Christ did not theorize about death but gave the gospel forged in the furnace of fact. In his death he abolished death and thereby became a Saviour of mankind, were the sacred words of solace brought the mourning family and young friends.
Miss Allen Helms sand "The Pearly White City," and with Berry Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Claude F. O'Neall sang "I Need Thee Every Hour." At the IOOF cemetery where interment was made, they sang "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
Pallbearers were Houston DuBose, Jimmie Helms, Jack Shock, Bill Boothe, J. C. Glover, and Milton Tieken. Outstanding in the large floral offerings from the host of friends of the young boy was a beautiful arrangement of flowers shaped as a football with the letters "Apaches" on the side.
Granger was a captain of the high school football team last season and Star pitcher for the baseball team this spring. He had been here only since December, 1940, but in the short time he had lived in Gonzales had made many friends among the younger circles in particular who were shocked and saddened by his death.
He had been I'll about two weeks. He succumbed in the hospital here Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock.
Born in San Antonio, December 24, 1923, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Granger, he spent his young boyhood in that city. In 1930 he moved with his parents to Fairfax, Okla., where he lived until December 5, 2940, when they moved to Gonzales.
At the age of 15 he professed faith in Christ, uniting with the Navy Reserve Baptist church near Fairfax. He was a member of the Young Mens Class of First Baptist Sunday School here.
Surviving besides his parents are two brothers, Gurnee and Ernest, his grandfather, W. W. Granger, other relatives and a host of friends.
Last Rites Held for R. A. Granger, Jr. Thursday Morning
Young and old friends of R. A. Granger, Jr., eighteen year old high school athlete, gathered at the W. W. Granger home Thursday morning for funeral rites and last tributes to the boy who died Wednesday.
Rev. Hal C. Wingo conducted the services, using as his text II Timothy, 1:10 with its message of immortality after death as brought out into the full light by the Saviour in His resurrection. Christ did not theorize about death but gave the gospel forged in the furnace of fact. In his death he abolished death and thereby became a Saviour of mankind, were the sacred words of solace brought the mourning family and young friends.
Miss Allen Helms sand "The Pearly White City," and with Berry Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Claude F. O'Neall sang "I Need Thee Every Hour." At the IOOF cemetery where interment was made, they sang "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
Pallbearers were Houston DuBose, Jimmie Helms, Jack Shock, Bill Boothe, J. C. Glover, and Milton Tieken. Outstanding in the large floral offerings from the host of friends of the young boy was a beautiful arrangement of flowers shaped as a football with the letters "Apaches" on the side.
Granger was a captain of the high school football team last season and Star pitcher for the baseball team this spring. He had been here only since December, 1940, but in the short time he had lived in Gonzales had made many friends among the younger circles in particular who were shocked and saddened by his death.
He had been I'll about two weeks. He succumbed in the hospital here Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock.
Born in San Antonio, December 24, 1923, second son of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Granger, he spent his young boyhood in that city. In 1930 he moved with his parents to Fairfax, Okla., where he lived until December 5, 2940, when they moved to Gonzales.
At the age of 15 he professed faith in Christ, uniting with the Navy Reserve Baptist church near Fairfax. He was a member of the Young Mens Class of First Baptist Sunday School here.
Surviving besides his parents are two brothers, Gurnee and Ernest, his grandfather, W. W. Granger, other relatives and a host of friends.
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