Richard C "Dick" Compton

Submitted by Beth Love

R. C. (Dick) Compton, 70, died at 10 p.m. Saturday in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Big Spring after a long illness.
Services were at 2 p.m. Tuesday, June 1, in the Calvary Baptist Church. The Reverend Bob Grayson, pastor officiated, assisted by the Reverend Harold Henderson of Valley Center, Kansas, a former Calvary Baptist pastor.
Burial was in the Mitchell County Cemetery beside his wife Gertrude Schafer Compton, under the direction of Kiker-Seale Funeral Home.
Born October 3, 1905 in Nimrod, Eastland County, Texas, he married Gertrude Schafer in 1928 in Austin, Texas. She died in October, 1969.
He had lived in Colorado City since 1929 and in Mitchell County since 1910.
He was a retired electrician, a member of the Calvary Baptist Church and a veteran of World War II.
Survivors include two brothers, L. W. (Buddy) Compton of Colorado City and Harvey "Hobbs" of Irving; and four sisters, Hazel McCollum of Loraine, Grace Wyatt of Colorado City, Claudia McCreary and Joyce Knappe of Big Spring.
Pallbearers were Corky Houston, Lon Robertson, Harvey Humphreys, Jimmy Bolin, Chuck Wiggins, and Cecil Schafer