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Submitted: 5/1/21 • Approved: 5/2/21 • Last Updated: 5/5/21 • R1371957-G1371956-S3
Sherrie Wade
January 3, 1940 - April 3, 1968
Donald Ray
February 7, 1940 - April 3, 1968
Sherrie Wade Ritcherson & her husband Donald Ray Ritcherson were killed on April 3, 1968 by a tornado that ripped through Lincoln County. The couple had just left her father Vaughn Wade's home in Star City returning to their home in Pine Bluff when their car was picked up and hurled from the road into a wooded area.
Vaughn Wade was also killed in the same storm.
Donald Ray Ritcherson, age 27, married Sherrie Lee Wade, age 27, on March 4, 1967 in Dallas, Texas, United States.
Source: Texas Marriages, 1966-2010
Contributed on 5/1/21 by deltabelle55
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