James Daniel "Spudd" Rutherford

James Daniel "Spudd" Rutherford

James Rutherford Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers from Mar. 31 to Apr. 2, 2009.
James Daniel 'Spudd' Rutherford, 20; of Langley, Okla.Funeral services for James Daniel "Spudd" Rutherford, 20, of Langley, Okla., will be at 11 a.m. today, Tuesday, March 31, Pryor High School Auditorium. He died Saturday, March 28, 2009, in an automobile accident near Miami. He was born May 14, 1988, in Jeffersonville to Joel and Kelly de Sousa Rutherford. He was a 2006 graduate of Pryor High School, where he was a standout athlete in soccer, track and football and was a tuba player in the band. He was employed by Arrowhead Yacht Club and was currently attending college at Rogers State University in Claremore. He had also attended Northeastern State in Tahlequah where he was a member of the Lambda Chi Fraternity. He was a member of the First Christian Church of Langley.Survivors include his parents, Joel and Margaret Rutherford, Langley, Okla.; Kelly Riggle and husband, Ed, Georgetown; brothers and sisters, Megan Spine and husband, Terry, Georgetown, Chris Riggle, New Albany, Lindsey Sisson and husband, Collin, Louisville, Michael Riggle, Twenty-one Palms, Calif., Emily McMurtrey and husband, Ryan, Muskogee, Kaitlin Riggle and Kellye Jo Riggle, both of Georgetown, and Grace Anne Rutherford, Langley, Okla; grandparents, Jim and Eva Jo Rutherford, Langley, Okla., Ralph Riggle Sr., Jeffersonville, Frank Mendoza, Tulsa, Okla., Ken Clay, Bryceville, Fla., Joe and Diane deSousa, Brentwood, N.H., and Ken and Nancy Funk, Joplin, Mo.; nieces, Ryily McMurtrey, Molly Spine and Isabel Sisson; nephew, Luke Spine; and numerous other aunts, uncles and cousins. He was preceded in death by his grandmothers, Jean Mendoza and Betty Clay.The Luginbuel South Grand Lake Funeral Home, Langley, Okla., is in charge of the arrangements.

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March 31, 2009

Please accept my heartfelt sympathy for your loss. May you rely on God who promises to comfort us during our times of distress. We read at 2nd Corint. 3:1, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort." We can have confidence in the promises that he has outlined in the Holy Bible. Your family and friends will be in my prayers.

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