Son of Frank Rucker and Sarah Herndon
JOSEPH RUCKER DIES
ROANOKE HOSPITAL
N. & W. Conductor Passes
Away Following Short
Illness - Funeral today
(Special to Daily News-Record)
Shenandoah City, Jan. 26. - Funeral services for Joseph C. Rucker, 58, Norfolk & Western Railway freight conductor and well-known resident of Shenandoah City, who died Tuesday night in Lewis-Gale Hospital in Roanoke after a short illness, will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock from the Shenandoah City Methodist Church. Death was due to complications.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. Raymond Musser, pastor of the Methodist Church. Interment will be in the church cemetery nearby. Members of the Order of Railway Trainmen will act as pallbearers.
Mr. Rucker went to Roanoke to be operated on for appendicitis about three weeks ago. He withstood the operation well and was thought to be well on the road to receovery. About one week ago complications set in that caused his death.
Mr. Rucker was a native of Shenandoah City and spent his entire life here. He had been employed by the Norfolk & Western Railway for more than 35 years. For a number of years he ran between Shenandoah City and Roanoke. He was well known by railway men on the Shenandoah Valley division and in Roanoke. He had a host of friends in Shenandoah City and was highly respected.
Mr. Rucker was a member of the Methodist Church. He was also a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors.
He is survived by his wife who was before marriage, Miss Susie Eppard, of East Point: two sons-Everett Rucker, of Washington and Joseph C. Rucker, Jr., of Shenandoah City; two daughters-J. B, Dasham, of Roanoke and Mrs. O. O. Davis, of Shenandoah City; three brothers—R. E. Rucker, of Shenandoah City and William and Clinton Rucker, of Iowa.
Harrisonburg Daily News Record, January 27, 1933
JOSEPH RUCKER DIES
ROANOKE HOSPITAL
N. & W. Conductor Passes
Away Following Short
Illness - Funeral today
(Special to Daily News-Record)
Shenandoah City, Jan. 26. - Funeral services for Joseph C. Rucker, 58, Norfolk & Western Railway freight conductor and well-known resident of Shenandoah City, who died Tuesday night in Lewis-Gale Hospital in Roanoke after a short illness, will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock from the Shenandoah City Methodist Church. Death was due to complications.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. Raymond Musser, pastor of the Methodist Church. Interment will be in the church cemetery nearby. Members of the Order of Railway Trainmen will act as pallbearers.
Mr. Rucker went to Roanoke to be operated on for appendicitis about three weeks ago. He withstood the operation well and was thought to be well on the road to receovery. About one week ago complications set in that caused his death.
Mr. Rucker was a native of Shenandoah City and spent his entire life here. He had been employed by the Norfolk & Western Railway for more than 35 years. For a number of years he ran between Shenandoah City and Roanoke. He was well known by railway men on the Shenandoah Valley division and in Roanoke. He had a host of friends in Shenandoah City and was highly respected.
Mr. Rucker was a member of the Methodist Church. He was also a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors.
He is survived by his wife who was before marriage, Miss Susie Eppard, of East Point: two sons-Everett Rucker, of Washington and Joseph C. Rucker, Jr., of Shenandoah City; two daughters-J. B, Dasham, of Roanoke and Mrs. O. O. Davis, of Shenandoah City; three brothers—R. E. Rucker, of Shenandoah City and William and Clinton Rucker, of Iowa.
Harrisonburg Daily News Record, January 27, 1933
Son of Frank Rucker and Sarah Herndon
JOSEPH RUCKER DIES
ROANOKE HOSPITAL
N. & W. Conductor Passes
Away Following Short
Illness - Funeral today
(Special to Daily News-Record)
Shenandoah City, Jan. 26. - Funeral services for Joseph C. Rucker, 58, Norfolk & Western Railway freight conductor and well-known resident of Shenandoah City, who died Tuesday night in Lewis-Gale Hospital in Roanoke after a short illness, will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock from the Shenandoah City Methodist Church. Death was due to complications.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. Raymond Musser, pastor of the Methodist Church. Interment will be in the church cemetery nearby. Members of the Order of Railway Trainmen will act as pallbearers.
Mr. Rucker went to Roanoke to be operated on for appendicitis about three weeks ago. He withstood the operation well and was thought to be well on the road to receovery. About one week ago complications set in that caused his death.
Mr. Rucker was a native of Shenandoah City and spent his entire life here. He had been employed by the Norfolk & Western Railway for more than 35 years. For a number of years he ran between Shenandoah City and Roanoke. He was well known by railway men on the Shenandoah Valley division and in Roanoke. He had a host of friends in Shenandoah City and was highly respected.
Mr. Rucker was a member of the Methodist Church. He was also a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors.
He is survived by his wife who was before marriage, Miss Susie Eppard, of East Point: two sons-Everett Rucker, of Washington and Joseph C. Rucker, Jr., of Shenandoah City; two daughters-J. B, Dasham, of Roanoke and Mrs. O. O. Davis, of Shenandoah City; three brothers—R. E. Rucker, of Shenandoah City and William and Clinton Rucker, of Iowa.
Harrisonburg Daily News Record, January 27, 1933
JOSEPH RUCKER DIES
ROANOKE HOSPITAL
N. & W. Conductor Passes
Away Following Short
Illness - Funeral today
(Special to Daily News-Record)
Shenandoah City, Jan. 26. - Funeral services for Joseph C. Rucker, 58, Norfolk & Western Railway freight conductor and well-known resident of Shenandoah City, who died Tuesday night in Lewis-Gale Hospital in Roanoke after a short illness, will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock from the Shenandoah City Methodist Church. Death was due to complications.
Services will be conducted by the Rev. Raymond Musser, pastor of the Methodist Church. Interment will be in the church cemetery nearby. Members of the Order of Railway Trainmen will act as pallbearers.
Mr. Rucker went to Roanoke to be operated on for appendicitis about three weeks ago. He withstood the operation well and was thought to be well on the road to receovery. About one week ago complications set in that caused his death.
Mr. Rucker was a native of Shenandoah City and spent his entire life here. He had been employed by the Norfolk & Western Railway for more than 35 years. For a number of years he ran between Shenandoah City and Roanoke. He was well known by railway men on the Shenandoah Valley division and in Roanoke. He had a host of friends in Shenandoah City and was highly respected.
Mr. Rucker was a member of the Methodist Church. He was also a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Order of Railway Conductors.
He is survived by his wife who was before marriage, Miss Susie Eppard, of East Point: two sons-Everett Rucker, of Washington and Joseph C. Rucker, Jr., of Shenandoah City; two daughters-J. B, Dasham, of Roanoke and Mrs. O. O. Davis, of Shenandoah City; three brothers—R. E. Rucker, of Shenandoah City and William and Clinton Rucker, of Iowa.
Harrisonburg Daily News Record, January 27, 1933
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