Rains Co TX Obits

Submitted by Elaine Nall Baye

Rains County Leader

Graveside services for Lady Bernice Rucker, 83, of Point, were held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, June 11, at Lone Star Cemetery with Rev. Martin Denison officiating.  She died Wednesday, June 9, at Green Acres Nursing Home in Emory.  She was born Nov. 25, 1920, in Peerless to Ought and Ida Beadles.  She married Jim R. Rucker in Commerce on Dec. 28, 1943.  She was a homemaker, a Baptist, and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.  She is survived by sons, Ben Rucker of Cumby, Jimmy Rucker of Farmersville, and Billy Edlin of Winnsboro; daughter, Sharon Laniece Rucker of Point; sister, Nettie Mae Creamer of Paris; five grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her husband in 1996.  Point Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements