James R. Bundy Bluford

James Robert Bundy, 83, of Bluford, died 11:15 p.m. Sunday at Good Samaritan Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Bluford Funeral Home, with the Rev. Tessie Minor and the Rev. Dixie West officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Olive cemetery.

The body will lie in state at the Bluford Funeral Home, where friends may call after 4:00 p.m. Tuesday.

Mr. Bundy was born July 16, 1886, in Jefferson county, the son of George and Mary (McKinney) Bundy.

In 1906 he was married to Bertha Richardson, who died in 1965.

Survivors include four sons, Owen Bundy of Seattle, Wash., Burrell Bundy of Lombard, Ill., Rev. Morrison J. Bundy of Mt. Vernon and James E. Bundy of Jacksonville, Fla.; four daughters, Naomi Scott and Mary Maxey, both of Bluford, Louis Castano of Rockford, and Marjorie Faulk of Houston, Tex.; two sisters, Georgia Fletcher of Griffithsville, Ark., and Gladys Underwood of Hasperia, Calif.; ten grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, one son, two brothers and one sister.

He was a member of the Markham City Nazarene church.

**Note from Sandy: Based upon his gravestone at Mt. Olive, he died in 1970

Source: Newspaper clipping from my grandmother
Date: 1970
Submitted by: Sandy (Whalen) Bauer