Tommy Gene Rhodes

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Name Tommy Gene Rhodes
Event Type Death
Event Date 06 Feb 1971
Event Place Sweetwater, Nolan, Texas, United States
Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Birth Date 28 Sep 1946
Usual Occupation Welders Helper McVean & Barlow
Birthplace Texas
Father's Name Hershall Rhodes
Mother's Name Violett A Ferguson
Informant Glenda D. Rhodes (wife)
Cause of Death Brain Stem, Face and Eye Injury, Industrial Accident
He was grinding a weld and the grindstone broke and penetrated his eye, nose and maxillary sinus, Pipeline construction, 30 miles south of Sweetwater, Nolan Coun ty, TX
Cemetery Rosevine Cemetery
Certificate Number 12329
GS Film number 2223074
Digital Folder Number 005145916
Image Number 01347

Citing this Record:
"Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K36F-1H4 : accessed 25 Sep 2013), Tommy Gene Rhodes, 1971.

Buster married Violet Adell Ferguson before 1944. Violet (daughter of James Calvin Ferguson and Reta Ashby) was born on 18 Apr 1921 in Oklahoma; died on 16 Apr 2019 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Funeral Services for Violet Adell (Ferguson) Rhodes-Burch, a longtime resident of the Rosevine Community, age 97, (just short 2 days of 98th Birthday), will be held at 1 p.m Friday, April 19, 2019, in the Rosevine United Pentecostal Church, with Bro. Gordon Simmons officiating. Visitation will be from the hours of 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 18, 2019, at the Wyman Roberts Memorial Chapel, 316 West Columbia Street, San Augustine, Texas.

Adell was born to the late Rita Faustine (Ashby) Ferguson and James Calvin Ferguson on April 18, 1921, in Oklahoma, and passed from this life Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in Hemphill. She was an inspirational, loving, always smiling, caring, and praying lady. In her almost 98 years of life, she had to endure such heartache and tragedies that no one should have to, but with the grace of God, her love for him, God sustained her through it all. She dearly loved her family so very much. Each child, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren knew she loved them, and that love was extended to her daughter-in-loves and sons-in-law. To her beloved siblings, the unique closeness of love she had to her sisters, and brothers clearly showed. When the Ferguson family reunion came around every year, they would and still gather and sing, playing the guitars, keyboards, etc.. and she dearly looked forward to it every year. "There was a lot of love in this dear lady," and it showed. and now she is seeing Jesus and his hands, the hands who held her through it all. She was a faithful and longtime member of the Rosevine United Pentecostal Church in Rosevine, a church that was dear to her heart.

Those to whom will cherish her memory include, her beloved son, James Rhodes and his wife, Jackie of Vidor; her loving daughter, Linda Kay Loggins and her husband, Leon of Rosevine (Rebecca Community); her beloved sons, Dennis Wayne Burch of Rosevine and Gilbert Dale Burch and his wife, Beverly of Pineland and her loving daughter, Beverly Sue Barlow of Rosevine; her kind and loving sisters, Margaret Oliver of San Augustine; Geraldine Goynes of Rosevine; Edna Cook of Silsbee; Myrtle Boyd of San Antonio and beloved brother, Bruce Ferguson of Rosevine, her loving daughters-in-law, Linda Nell Rhodes of San Augustine; Pat Rhodes of Etoile and Glenda Richard of Rockport, along with her beloved 27 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren and 9 great-great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives, and friends, and her beloved church family.

She is preceded in death by her 1st husband, Hershel "Buster" Rhodes, her 2nd husband, Loy "Skeet" Burch; her beloved parents, Reta and James Calvin Ferguson; her beloved sons, Hershel Rhodes, Sr., Paul Albert Rhodes, Tommy Rhodes, Charles Timothy Rhodes, and Kenneth Earl Rhodes; beloved grandsons, Clint Rhodes and Chris Setters, her loving siblings, Velma King, Irene Oliver, Frances Sarver, Eugene "Gene" Ferguson and Albert Ferguson.

Serving as pallbearers will include, Hershel Rhodes, Jr., Chris Rhodes, Cash Barlow, Caden Miller, Kent Loggins, Ethan Loggins, Blane Rhodes, Mike Rhode, Cody Rhodes and Gary Rhodes.

Copied from Wyman Roberts Funeral Home website
Also published in the Sabine County Reporter, April 24, 2018, Page 8

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(Research):

Census Listings:

1940 Census
Texas, Sabine County, JP #6
SD 42-2 ED 202-9 Sheet 8B
Rosevine & Milam Road
165
(Residence in 1935 for this entire family was Rural Angelina County, Texas)
Ferguson, James C Head M W 52 M No 5th Tx Farmer
Ferguson, Reta O Wf F W 41 M No 1rst Tennessee Housewife At Home
Ferguson, Magruite Dtr F W 17 S No 1rst Okla Housework
Ferguson, Albert Son M W 15 S Okla Yes 5th Student at school
Ferguson, Eugene Son M W 13 S Yes 5th Okla
Ferguson, Geraldine Dtr F W 11 S Yes 4rth Tx
Ferguson, Francis Dtr F W 9 S Yes 3rd Texas
Ferguson, Edna Earl DStr F W@ 6 S Yes 1 Tx
Ferguson, Myrtle Dtr F W 4 S Tx
Ferguson, Bruce Son M W 1 S Tx

James married Reta Ashby. Reta was born on 8 Nov 1899 in Benton County, Tennessee; died on 15 Nov 1991; was buried in Rosevine Cemetery, Rosevine, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]