Drue Leslie Rutherford Jr.

Drue L. Rutherford, Jr. – an 89 year-old native of Bolivar Co., MS, raised in Jackson, MS, and resident of Mobile for 50 years, passed away Wednesday, June 1, 2011. He retired from the City of Mobile after many years of service and also served as an engineer for local television station WALA and local radio station WUNI. Mr. Rutherford was a World War II veteran of the United States Army Air Corps during which he was stationed in Brazil as a staff sergeant with the 101st Army Airways Communication Systems Squadron. He was a longtime member of Orchard Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Willetta Thompson Rutherford; parents, Drue L. Rutherford and Mary Wilson Rutherford; and sisters, Martha Jean Ellison and Sara Jane Hyatt. Mr. Rutherford is survived by his sons, Drue L. Rutherford, III (Lucretia) and James M. Rutherford (Marilyn); granddaughters, Crystal Rutherford Paulk (Bret) and Whitney E. Rutherford; step-grandsons, Dave Spurlock, Eddie Spurlock, and John Spurlock all of Mobile, and Lewis Dean Carlisle of Colorado Springs, CO; six great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held from the chapel of Radney Funeral Home in Mobile on Saturday, June 4, 2011, at 10 a.m. The family will receive friends beginning at 9 a.m. Interment will be in Springhill Memorial Gardens. Condolences may be offered at www.radneyfuneralhome-mobile.com.Arrangements by Radney Funeral Home, 3155 Dauphin Stree, Mobile, Alabama 36606.