Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Lucille Rackham
Burkettsville native Lucille B. Rackham, 86, of Pagosa Springs, Colo., died Jan. 21, 2010, in Andrews, Texas.
She was born Feb. 11, 1923, in Burkettsville, to Henry and Elizabeth Wildenhaus Herman. On Sept. 29, 1945, she married Edwin J. Rackham, who died Nov. 21, 2002.
Surviving are two sons, Flak Rackham, Albuquerque, N.M., and Tony Rackham, Pagosa Springs, Colo.; two daughters, Susan Sands, Albuquerque, N.M., and Christina Evans, Wink, Texas; a brother, Paul Herman, Celina; two sisters, Eileen Wooles, Kettering, and Joann Straubinger, Tallahassee, Fla.; 10 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Deceased are a brother, Eugene Herman, a sister, Marjorie Temple, a sister-in-law, Helen Herman, two brothers-in-law, Stormy Wooles and Don Straubinger, and two grandchildren.
She was a homemaker, a member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church and a volunteer for hospice. She was a 1941 graduate of Immaculate Conception High School.
Services are to be held later with burial at Hilltop Cemetery in Pagosa Springs, Colo.