Winnie Catherine Williams
1904 - 1996 (92 years)Person ID: I16289 | Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026
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Name Winnie Catherine Williams Gender Female Birth 24 Jan 1904 Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas, USA 
Died 25 Sep 1996 Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA Buried Crestview Memorial Park, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA [1] -
Parents
Father Henry Phillip Williams (ID:I16287)
b. 29 Oct 1864, Matagorda County, Texas, USA
d. 5 Aug 1905, Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas, USA (Age 40 years) Mother Lida Franz (ID:I16288)
b. 11 Aug 1877
d. Jan 1914, Palacios, Matagorda County, Texas, USA (Age 36 years) Marriage 4 Jun 1902 Matagorda, Matagorda County, Texas, USA -
Family
Husband Stanley Robbins Rugeley (ID:I16290)
b. 10 May 1901, Matagorda, Matagorda County, Texas, USA
d. 7 Oct 1970, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA (Age 69 years)
Marriage 16 May 1923 Age at Marriage Winnie : 19 years - Stanley : 22 years. (Were Married 47 years). Children + 1. 
Stanley Philip Rugeley (ID:I16291)
b. 3 Aug 1936, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA
d. 24 May 2018, Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA (Age 81 years) -
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Event Map
Birth - 24 Jan 1904 - Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas, USA 
Died - 25 Sep 1996 - Wichita Falls, Wichita County, Texas, USA = Link to Google Earth 
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Source Citations
- [FIND-A-GRAVE] Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/190074518/winnie_catherine-rugeley.
Parents Henry Phillip Williams and Lyda Lorenz Franz
Winnie Catherine Rugeley, 92, died Wednesday in a Wichita Falls nursing home.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Fain Presbyterian Church with Dr. Earle Crawford, Pastor, Emeritus, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Lunn's Colonial Funeral Home..
Mrs. Rugeley was born Jan 24, 1904, in Bay City, Texas. She studied music at a community college in Rusk, Texas. She and Stanley Robbins Rugeley were married May 16, 1923. They moved to Wichita Falls in the late 1920's. She was a volunteer for the Red Cross and the Gray Ladies during World War II. She was involved in the Presbyterian Women's Organization of First Southern and Fain Presbhyterian churches, where she served as organist for 35 years.
Survivors include a son, Stanley Philip Rugeley of Wichita Falls; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The family will be at 2208 Miramar.
Memorialw may be made to Fain Presbyterian Church.
Times Record News
Wichita Falls, Texas
Friday, September 27, 1996
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