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Daphnee Brownell Collection
Volusia County Public Library
DeLand, Florida
From an undated newspaper transcribed by Eunice Raulerson Bolin, Seville:
Mrs. Clara Virginia Moody Raulerson
Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at the First Baptist Church, Seville for Mrs. Clara Virginia Moody Raulerson. Rev. Jack L. Stewart, pastor, officiated. Interment was made in the family lot at Seville Cemetery. Mrs. Raulerson died at her home in northeast Seville at 12:55 a.m. Friday, 7 May, after an illness of several months.
Mrs. Raulerson was born in North Florida 5 Sept. 1881. She came to Seville with her parents, the late Isham and Clara Moody, at the age of one year and has made her home here ever since. She was married to Stephen Franklin Raulerson in Seville, 10 Jan 1897. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Seville.
Survivors are her husband, S. F. Raulerson; three sons; Franklin of New Smyrna Beach, Alvis of Seville and Leamon of Crescent City; two daughters; Mrs. Sadie Shelton, St. Petersburg; Mrs. Evelyn Davis of Jacksonville; a sister, Mrs. J .C. Strickland of Hialeah; a brother, C. B. Moody (in one article) and C. D. Moody (in another) of Hastings; 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were, Charlie Clark, Don Marshall, Claude Yelvington, Dan Reynolds, and M. C. Coleman of Seville and Edward Preston of Crescent City.
Clayton Frank and Son, Crescent City, in charge of arrangements.
Out of town relatives and friends attending the funeral of Mrs. Raulerson were:
Mr. and Mrs. Clay Shelton of St. Petersburg, Mrs. Evelyn Davis and daughter, Diane, Mr. and Mrs. Lavon Tanner, and Wallace Tanner, all of Jacksonville; Mr. and Mrs. Leamon Raulerson and daughter, Patsy, of Crescent City; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Strickland of Hialeah; Edwin Strickland of Miami; Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Moody of Hastings; Ellis Moody of Switzerland; Mrs. Annie Moody, Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Dey, East Palatka; Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Raulerson and three sons, Mrs. Hooke Findley, Mrs. W. T. Fajans, and Mrs. L. D. Highsmith, all of New Smyrna Beach; Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Boyll, Mrs. Lucretia Guenther, Rev. and Mrs. Chas. F. Freeman. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Herren, all of St. Petersburg; Darrel Raulerson, Lake Wales, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Kickert, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Potts of Georgetown; Mr. and Mrs. L. Young of Lake Como, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Harper, DeLand, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Bolin and daughter, Mt. Dora; as well as numerous relatives and friends from Pierson and Crescent City.