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Richard D.
Rutledge, 70, of Caldwell, died Sunday, April 7, 1991, at his
home of natural causes. Funeral services will be held at 10
a.m. Wednesday, April 10, at the Dakan Funeral Chapel,
Caldwell. Pastor Walter C. Rice of Faith Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Caldwell, will officiate. Interment
will follow at the Middleton Cemetery.
Richard was born Nov. 9. 1920, at Star, to Percy and Bertha
Egger Rutledge. He was raised and educated at Cascade
where he graduated from high school. He attended the
University of Idaho for a year where he joined the National
Guard, Sept. 16, 1940. He served. in active duty with
the field artillery unit in the U S Army in New Guinea and the
Phillipines. He was discharged from active duty in November
1945. He returned to Boise and attended Boise Junior
College and married Gay G. Bonman, Sept. 13, 1947, at Boise.
They moved to Meridian in 1950 where he began cattle ranching.
On March 1, 1951, he was recalled to
active duty with the U.S. Air Force and was stationed in
Georgia and later at George Air Force Base at Victorville,
Calif. He was discharged once again Dec. 1, 1952.
He returned to ranching at Meridian, later moving to Caldwell
in 1959 where he ranched and also was the director of the
Idaho State School and Hospital farm in the early 1960s.
Later he went back to ranching full time until his retirement
in 1984. He retired from the National Guard in 1980 with
the rank of major, having held every rank
from major to
private. He had been actively ranching for the past
three years up until the time of his death.
Richard was a member of Toastmasters, the D.A.V. and Faith
Lutheran Church. He loved playing bridge.
Richard is survived by his wife, Gay of Caldwell; a son and
daughter-in-law, Todd and Dana Rutledge of Vancouver, Wash.;
three daughters and sons-in-law, Christina and Francois Awabde
of Reno, Nev., and Robin and Bert Patrick and Jill and Dean
Schmitt, all of Caldwell; three sisters, Joy K. Frankenstein
of Seattle, and Patricia Ann Rutledge and Persis DeLaMare of
Portland; and seven grandchildren.
He
was preceded in death by a brother, Morris (sic-Maurice), and
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