Colorado City Record, published in Colorado City, Texas on Thursday, November 11th, 1993
Services for Walter "Bud" Rankin, 74, of Coahoma were scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Kiker-Seale Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jim Fullingim officiating. Burial was in Colorado City Cemetery.
M r. Rankin died November 7, 1993 at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. He was born January 28, 1919 in Fletcher, Oklahoma. He married Susie Snyder in 1939 in Colorado City. She died in 1989.
Mr. Rankin attended Texas Tech University on a football scholarship and was on the 1938 Texas Tech Cotton Bowl team. He played professional football for the Chicago Cardinals from 1940-1947. T he team won the NFL World Champion in 1947. Mr. Rankin moved to Midland in 1949 where he was in the oil and gas business. In 1960 he moved to Coahoma with ranching interest in Howard and Mitchell Counties. He was a member of the National Cutting Horse Association, Texas Cattlemen Association and the National Football League Players Association.
Survivors include two sons, W alter Snyder Rankin of Midland and Dudley David Rankin of Boulder, Colorado; one daughter, Helen Dianne Rankin of Dallas; four sisters. Mable Mason of Hunting Beach, California, Lucille W right o f Marble Falls, Texas, Helen Sturgeon of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Iva Lee Shropshire of Lubbock; and four grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Texas Tech Athletic Memorial Scholarship Endowment.
Services for Walter "Bud" Rankin, 74, of Coahoma were scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Kiker-Seale Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jim Fullingim officiating. Burial was in Colorado City Cemetery.
M r. Rankin died November 7, 1993 at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. He was born January 28, 1919 in Fletcher, Oklahoma. He married Susie Snyder in 1939 in Colorado City. She died in 1989.
Mr. Rankin attended Texas Tech University on a football scholarship and was on the 1938 Texas Tech Cotton Bowl team. He played professional football for the Chicago Cardinals from 1940-1947. T he team won the NFL World Champion in 1947. Mr. Rankin moved to Midland in 1949 where he was in the oil and gas business. In 1960 he moved to Coahoma with ranching interest in Howard and Mitchell Counties. He was a member of the National Cutting Horse Association, Texas Cattlemen Association and the National Football League Players Association.
Survivors include two sons, W alter Snyder Rankin of Midland and Dudley David Rankin of Boulder, Colorado; one daughter, Helen Dianne Rankin of Dallas; four sisters. Mable Mason of Hunting Beach, California, Lucille W right o f Marble Falls, Texas, Helen Sturgeon of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Iva Lee Shropshire of Lubbock; and four grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Texas Tech Athletic Memorial Scholarship Endowment.
Colorado City Record, published in Colorado City, Texas on Thursday, November 11th, 1993
Services for Walter "Bud" Rankin, 74, of Coahoma were scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Kiker-Seale Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jim Fullingim officiating. Burial was in Colorado City Cemetery.
M r. Rankin died November 7, 1993 at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. He was born January 28, 1919 in Fletcher, Oklahoma. He married Susie Snyder in 1939 in Colorado City. She died in 1989.
Mr. Rankin attended Texas Tech University on a football scholarship and was on the 1938 Texas Tech Cotton Bowl team. He played professional football for the Chicago Cardinals from 1940-1947. T he team won the NFL World Champion in 1947. Mr. Rankin moved to Midland in 1949 where he was in the oil and gas business. In 1960 he moved to Coahoma with ranching interest in Howard and Mitchell Counties. He was a member of the National Cutting Horse Association, Texas Cattlemen Association and the National Football League Players Association.
Survivors include two sons, W alter Snyder Rankin of Midland and Dudley David Rankin of Boulder, Colorado; one daughter, Helen Dianne Rankin of Dallas; four sisters. Mable Mason of Hunting Beach, California, Lucille W right o f Marble Falls, Texas, Helen Sturgeon of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Iva Lee Shropshire of Lubbock; and four grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Texas Tech Athletic Memorial Scholarship Endowment.
Services for Walter "Bud" Rankin, 74, of Coahoma were scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Kiker-Seale Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jim Fullingim officiating. Burial was in Colorado City Cemetery.
M r. Rankin died November 7, 1993 at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. He was born January 28, 1919 in Fletcher, Oklahoma. He married Susie Snyder in 1939 in Colorado City. She died in 1989.
Mr. Rankin attended Texas Tech University on a football scholarship and was on the 1938 Texas Tech Cotton Bowl team. He played professional football for the Chicago Cardinals from 1940-1947. T he team won the NFL World Champion in 1947. Mr. Rankin moved to Midland in 1949 where he was in the oil and gas business. In 1960 he moved to Coahoma with ranching interest in Howard and Mitchell Counties. He was a member of the National Cutting Horse Association, Texas Cattlemen Association and the National Football League Players Association.
Survivors include two sons, W alter Snyder Rankin of Midland and Dudley David Rankin of Boulder, Colorado; one daughter, Helen Dianne Rankin of Dallas; four sisters. Mable Mason of Hunting Beach, California, Lucille W right o f Marble Falls, Texas, Helen Sturgeon of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Iva Lee Shropshire of Lubbock; and four grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to Texas Tech Athletic Memorial Scholarship Endowment.
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