Date of birth: 30 Oct 1992
Date of death: 08 Sep 1955

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Burial Information

Section 03 (Click Here for Section Map)
Cemetery: Odd Fellows Cemetery
Plot: 199A-04
Status: Occupied

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Notes

Obituary 

Rabb Services Held
Friday In Lexington

Prominent Holmes
Man Passes Thursday
After Long Illness

Funeral services for Mr. Lawrence W. Rabb, prominent resident of Holmes County, were held Friday, September 9 at 4:00 p.m. at the First Methodist church in Lexington with Rev. M. J. Peden conducting the services, assisted by the Rev. H. C. McKibben. Interment was in the Odd Fellows Cemetery with Southern in charge.

Mr. Rabb, who was 71 years old, was born October 30, 1883, in Yazoo County near Midway. He had been a resident of Lexington 21 years and was a member of the Methodist Church. Mr. Rabb was a retired certified public accountant and also welfare agent for Holmes County for about 25 years. He had served since 1930 until the first of this year, when he retired due to ill health.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Willie McCaleb Rabb; a son, Lawrence W. Rabb. Jr. of Meridian; a daughter, Miss Bettye Jean Rabb of Lexington; a brother, Oscar C. Rabb of Opelousas Louisiana; a sister, Mrs. Weta Rabb Lay of Denver, Colorado, and two grandchildren.

Active pallbearers were: Glower Johnson, Talbert Nabors, Adam Henrich, Walter Durham of Durant, Carlton Alien, Jonn Kimbrough.

The Lexington Advertiser - Lexington, MS
Date, vol, no. , pg.

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Family Members

Parents
William Fowles Rabb
1848–1921

Rilda A. Courts Rabb
1852–1901

Siblings
William Clifton Rabb
1876–1880

Weta H Rabb Lay
1885–1956

Robert L Rabb
1889–1952

Half Siblings
Eugene Harvey Rabb
1868–1936

Mary Belle Rabb Jones
1868–1943

Spouses
Kayte Hatton McLendon
1884–1976 (m. 1905)

Willie McCaleb Rabb
1896–1992

Children
Dorothy Rabb Cockrill
1909–1933

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Burial:

09 Sep 1955

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