Graveside services for Natalie Richards Rutherford, 86, of Duncan, will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, January 18, 2021 in the Bradley Cemetery.
Natalie (Baker) Richards Rutherford was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on February 5, 1934 to Bud D. and Cleffie Jewel (Phillips) Baker. She died on January 14, 2021 in Duncan, Oklahoma. She grew up in south Texas and Oklahoma.
As a young woman, Natalie settled in Corpus Christi where she met and married Enright Richards. They lived in Corpus Christi for several years where they formed their family of yours, mine and ours, raising six children with four girls and two boys. They later moved to Oklahoma to be closer to family, where she resided until her death. Natalie enjoyed dancing and crocheting.
She was preceded in death by her parents Bud Baker and Cleffie Jewel Havens; step-father Lester A. Havens; husbands, Enright Richards and Bobbie Rutherford; sons Porter Richards and Sunny Richards; daughter Marsia Wilson; brothers Buddy Baker, Wiley Baker, Austin Havens and Allen Havens; and sister Ruby Mitchell.
Natalie is survived by daughters Cleffie Schoolfield of Duncan, Constance Ingram of Guthrie, and Sharon Ingram of Corpus Christi, TX; sisters Linda Richards of Bradley and LaVerne Alexander of Lindsey; 11 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and 6 great-great-grandchildren.
Interment in Bradley Cemetery will be under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home.