In Memory of

Ed

Rutledge

Obituary for Ed Rutledge

Graveside services for Ed Rutledge will be at 10AM, Saturday, September 12, 2020 at Garden of Memories Cemetery, Jonesville, LA with Bro. Tim Crooks and Bro. Junior Trisler officiating under the direction of Magnolia Funeral Home, Alexandria.

Ed Rutledge, 76, passed away Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at Christus St. Frances Cabrini Medical Center. He was a deacon, charter member and of the board of directors at Jonesville Church of God. He was a devoted husband, Dad and Poppa. He loved his church, church family and the Lord. He was a loving Poppa of 8 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. He loved spending time at his camp with his family and loved hunting and fishing.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Nash and Louella Rutledge; siblings, Gracie Carroll, Marion Rutledge, Charles Rutledge and L.W. Rutledge; father-in-law, Clifton Harris.

Those left to cherish his memory include his wife of 59 years, Peggy Rutledge; children, Kevin Rutledge and wife Stacey and Rhonda Williams and husband Bubba; grandchildren, Amy Cooksey and husband Clint, Landon Williams and wife Candy, Hanna Lossin and husband Jacques, Cade Williams and wife Logan, Haley Hill and husband Dustin, Riley Williams, Jake Rutledge and Tate Williams; great grandchildren, Maggie, Ava and River Lossin, Ainslee, Cash Colby and John Crew Cooksey, Kylon, Cason and Clate Hill, Chloe, Sayde and Beaux and Hayes Williams; sisters, Molly Kern Nichols and Lena Mae Finn; sister-n-law’s, LaRaedo Rutledge, Cloteal Rutledge and Caralyn Rutledge; mother-n-law, Badglee Harris; Andy Shulla; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers will be Bruce Rutledge, Robert Kern, Bubba Carroll, Wayne Rutledge, Eli Rutledge and Stevie Crooks. Honorary pallbearers will be Buddy Richardson, Glenn McNeely, Wolf Trisler, Freddy Cook, Brad Crooks, Pervon Paul and Richard Wilson.