This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rule, Henson, Wilkerson, Blakemore, Deato, Heller, Maxwell, Johnson, Hendon, Henson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6711 Message Board Post: Lonnie R. Rule, 67, passseds away at his home near Friona, Texas last Thursday, August 8th, 1946 shorly after midnight, following an illness of a year. Funeral rites were conducted at the Pentecostal church in Friona Saturday with the Rev. E.E. Havlettle, pastor, conducting the services. Burial was in Friona cemetery under direction of E.E. Block Funeral Home of Hereford, Texas. Mr. Rule was born an Pinkneyville, Illinois on May 16, 1879. He came to Oklahoma in 1903 from Pinkneyville. He was marriede on July 7, 1904 to Myrtle Bell Henson at Cheyenne, Oklahoma. To this union were born 12 children, two of whom preceded him in death, William and Helen. He is survived by his wife and seven sons: Sam of Bovina, Texas; Bob and Dale of Raymondville, Texas; Raleigh, Buford, Bennie and Jim of Friona, Texas; Three daughters, Mrs. Avis Wilkerson of Bovina, Texas, Mrs. Zoy Deed Blakemore of Sunnerfield, Texas, Mrs. Myrtle Deato of Friona, Texas, 11 grandchildren, one brother, Billie Rule of Michigan and four sisters, Mrs. Margaret Heller, Mrs. W.G. Maxwell, Mrs. Belle Johnson, all of Pinckneyville, Illinois, survive, as well as Mrs. Matt Herndon of Alton, Illinois and a host of other relatives and friends. He moved to Texas from Oklahoma in 1928. He lived all that time in Friona, except two years he spent in Chevalias, Washington. All of his children except Robert were at his bedside at the time he passed away. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 22-Aug-1946