Rucker services
Mass for Richard “Mobe” C. Rucker, 50, Lawrence, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Lawrence. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery.
Mr. Rucker died Thursday, Aug. 8, 2002, in Laramie, Wyo.
Mr. Rucker was born Feb. 27, 1952, in Madison, Tenn., the son of John B. and Earlene (Carnes) Rucker.
Mr. Rucker was a park ranger at Lake Perry where he worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He had worked at Lake Perry for the past 24 years.
He was a 1975 graduate of Kansas University with biology, psychology and English degrees. He was a member of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, the National Audubon Society, the Sierra Club and the Cordley Parent-Teacher Organization.
He married Roseanne Smith on July 23, 1985, in Lawrence. She survives of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters; Genevieve Rucker and Sarah Rucker, both of the home; his mother, Topeka; and a brother, Robert Rucker, South San Francisco, Calif.
A rosary prayer service will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church.
The family suggests memorials to the Jayhawk Audubon Society or the church, sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.