Memorial services for A. Bunyan Exum were at 11 a.m. last Wednesday in First Baptist Church of Ralls. The Rev. Lee Fuller, pastor, officiated. Mr.Exum was 8.
Burial was in Ralls Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Jessie Reese, Edmond Crump, Jerrold Powell, Phil Kirkendall, T.W. Stockton and Tivia Walker, Honorary pallbearers included J.W. Payne, Vernie Smith, Beans Littlefield and J.B. Potts.
A Crosby County resident most of his life, Mr. Exum and his wife moved to John Knox Village in Lubbock in 1978.
He was claimed by death Monday, Aug. 19, at Methodist Hospital, Lubbock, after a lengthy illness.
A native of Crews, he and the former Audrey Townsend were married Aug. 13, 1921, in Ralls. The Exums lived in the Farmer community about 20 years and the Big Four community about 24 years before moving to Ralls. They went to Lubbock from Ralls.
Mr. Exum was a retired farmer, a Baptist and a member of Emma Masonic Lodge No. 931 for more than 50 years.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Harold Exum of Campbell, Calif.; a daughter, LaVerne Watkins of Tahlequah, Okla.; a brother, Dial Exum of Bellingham, Wash.; a sister, Winnie Jones of Ralls; 11 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
©Crosbyton Review, August 29, 1985
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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