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Submitted: 5/28/12 • Approved: 5/30/12 • Last Updated: 9/29/12 • R699284-G0-S3
Born March 28, 1907, Newburg, Izard County, Arkansas
Died November 11, 1945, Calico Rock, Izard County, Arkansas
Son of Samuel Johnson Roddy & Frances "Josie" Page Roddy
Married Neaoma Gifford, January 12, 1935, Izard County, Arkansas
The Melbourne Times, Melbourne, Arkansas, November 1945:
Samuel Auby Roddy age 38 died unexpectedly at his home in Calico Rock Sunday morning. He had moved to Calico Rock about two years ago from Newburg, where he was born and reared. He was a Methodist.
Surviving are his wife and two daughters, Wanda and Mary of Calico Rock; four brothers, C. D., Marvin and N. A. Roddy all of Newburg and E. T. Roddy of Wenatchee, Wash., and two sisters, Mrs. Lula Dollar of Newburg, Mrs. Myrtle Norton of Depeen, Okla.
Funeral services were held at the Page Cemetery, near Newburg, Tuesday with arrangements in charge of the Higginbotham Funeral Home.
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 5/28/12 by maxparnell
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