© Jo Aguirre

Hennessey -  Funeral services for Ralph Rudd, 74, who died Monday evening in an Enid hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Union Chapel Church east of Hennessey. Rev. Wallace Peckham and Rev. Joe Redmond will officiate and burial will be in the Lyon Valley Cemetery under the direction of the Cordry and Son Funeral Home.

The body will lie in state at the church an hour before service time and the casket will not be opened following the services.

Contributions may be made to the cancer fund of the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation with the funeral home acting as custodian.

Rudd was born near Bison and grew up in that community. He also lived on a farm near Marshall.

Survivors include his wife, Edith of the home; a son, Oliver Rudd, Marshall; two daughters, Mrs. Louise Cordionnier, Bethany, and Mrs. Leona Ott, Oklahoma City; three step-sons, Rev. Wallace Peckham, Emporia, KS, Francis J. Peckham, Huntsville, AL and Donald Gene Peckham, Tulsa, OK; 10 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Clary, Wichita, KS, and Mrs. Ruth L. Jones, Nevada, MO.