Godfrey Ragsdale 

Services for Godfrey Ragsdale, 60, Jacksonville, are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Sunday, June 15, 2008 at Mount Haven C.M.E. Church with Rev. Claudell Anderson, Rev. Earl Franklin, and Rev. Robert Tilley officiating. Burial will be in Pine Grove Cemetery under direction of Williams Funeral Home. Mr. Ragsdale died June 10, 2008, in Longview. He was born July 25, 1947, in Jacksonville. He attended Mount Haven elementary and graduated from Fred Douglass High School. He attended Lon Morris College, Prairie View University, University of Texas in Arlington, and The University of Texas in Austin He was a member of Mount Haven C.M.E. Church and served in the Marine Corps. Survivors include his wife, Jocelyn Ragsdale, Jacksonville; sons, Klashun B. Ragsdale, Godfrey Xenon Ragsdale, Joseph Vincent Ragsdale, Joshua Philipe Ragsdale, all of Jacksonville and Daniel Tarrayne Ragsdale, of Houston; sisters and brother-in-law, Lois and George Gregory and Laurene Ragsdale, both of Dallas; brother and sister-in-law, Paul B. and Debbie Ragsdale, of Jacksonville; four grandchildren and five aunts. Published in the Jacksonville Daily Progress on 6/15/2008.

Published in the Jacksonville Daily Progress