Virginia E. LaRue

Services for Virginia Edwards LaRue, of Tyler, will be held

at First Presbyterian Church on Monday, December 13, 2010, at 11 a.m.,

under the direction of Lloyd James Funeral Home. The Reverend Dr. Stuart

Baskin, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church, will officiate.

Mrs. LaRue passed away on December 11, 2010, in Tyler. She was born

on March 10, 1914, in Grand Saline, Texas, to James Alexander Edwards

and Nell Dorough Edwards. The family later moved to Terrell, Texas.

She was a graduate of T.M.C. College in Terrell, and later attended

Baylor University. In 1935, she married Dillard Robert LaRue, and moved

to Tyler in 1937.

Mrs. LaRue became active in church and club work, attending First

Presbyterian Church and Women’s Bible Study Circle. She also was a

member of The Criterion Literary Club, The Gertrude Windsor Garden

Club, and The Mary Tyler Chapter of The Daughters of the American

Revolution.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Dillard Robert

LaRue, who died July 29, 1992.

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Survivors include her three children: a son, John Dillard LaRue, Sr., and

daughter-in-law, Sylvia Mack LaRue of Dallas, daughters: Nancy LaRue

Westmoreland and son-in-law, Steve Westmoreland, of Austin, and Betty

LaRue Burkett and son-in-law, Tom Burkett of Houston.

Other survivors are her eight grandchildren: Cecile LaRue, Celeste LaRue

Ehrenberger, and Denise LaRue Turfitt, John Dillard LaRue, Jr., Trey

Graham, Amy Graham, Shannon Burkett, and Jennifer Burkett Pearce.

Great grandchildren are Cole Scott, Bailey and Emily Turfitt, Ryleigh

LaRue, Molly Graham, Britton and Drayton Pearce. Two nephews are

David Edwards of Albuquerque, and James Matthew Cartwright of Austin.

If desired, memorial gifts may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of

Tyler, or a charity of one’s choice.