Palestine High School Alumni Association

05 / 04 / 1907  –  04 / 11 / 2003

Services for Muriel May Mollard Ricketson, 95, of Palestine will be at 3:30 P.m. Sunday at Bailey & Foster Chapel with Rev. Scott Dornbush officiating.  Burial will follow in Rose Lawn Park under the direction of Bailey & Foster.

Mrs. Ricketson died Friday morning at Cartmell Home for Aged.  She was born May 4, 1907 in Palestine to Henry Clay and Carrie Elizabeth Methvin Mollard.

Mrs. Ricketson was an office manager at Ellington Air force Base in Houston.  She was a Methodist and a member of the Eastern Star and the White Shrine.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Marl Ricketson; son, William A. Ricketson; sisters, Frances Turney, Elizabeth Simms and Virginia Parsons; brothers, Norman Mollard, Henry Mollard and William Mollard.

Mrs. Ricketson is survived two sisters, Mary Mollard Wallace and husband Jack of Palestine, and Lois Nell Mollard Bettis of Lindale.

Pallbearers will be Ed Brown, Norman Mollarad, Bill Haney, Henry Johnson, Carl Nelson and Vic Lively.

Condolence calls will be received from 5 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home.