Graveside services for Anna Baxter Rodrigues, 91, of Waco were held at 10 a.m. Friday, December 20, 2002 at Afton Cemetery with the Rev. Richard Harbison officiating. Services were under the direction of Campbell Funeral Home of Spur.
She died Tuesday, Dec. 1 2002 in Waco.
She was born Dec. 26, 1910, in Sayre, Oklahoma to Sam and May Webb Baxter. The family moved to Dickens County in 1918. There, she met and married Eldred Norris in 1933. Two children Wesley and Ann were to this union.
She married Danny Rodrigues in 1969 in San Diego, Calif. He preceded her in death in 1978. In 1971 she retired from a nursing career and returned to the family homestead in Afton.
She was preceded in death by her husband, four brothers, Paul, John, Sidney and Leo, and two sisters, Lena and Doris.
She is survived by one son, Richard "Wesley" Norris; one daughter, Ann Osborne of Waco; 4 sisters, Nora Barnett of Portland, Texas, Lizzie Lou Bridge and Della Jackson, both of Afton, and Edith England of Plainview; one brother, Dee Baxter of Derby, Kansas; 3 granddaughters; and 5 great-grandsons.
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