Texarkana Gazette - Wednesday, Aug. 16, 1978
Cecil Raymond Sprague
HOPE, Ark. - Services for Cecil Raymond Sprague, 60, of Hope, Ark., will be at 3pm today in Herndon Funeral Home with Rev. J.W. Bobo officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope. Sprague accidentally drowned late Sunday in Little River, north of Allen Ferry near Fulton, Ark. He was a veteran of World War II and an employee of Hudson Farms.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mildred Gray Sprague of Hope; three sons, Buddy Sprague of Hope, Spec. 6 Floyd Sprague of U.S. Army of Huntsville, Ala., and William R. Sprague of Texarkana, Texas; four daughters, Mrs. Carolyn Fuller and Mrs. Ann Winberry, both of Shreveport, LA., Mrs. Sharon Jones of Stuart, Fla., and Mrs. Sandra Samuel of Hope; his mother, Mrs. Beulah Sprague of Texarkana, Ark.; a brother F.A. Sprague of Texarkana, Texas; a sister, Mrs. Ellen Janoe of Texarkana, Ark., and 17 grand-children.
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