Obituary

Funeral services for Rodolfo DeLeon, 68, will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Chapel of Lemons Funeral Home. Burial will be in Parklawn Memorial Gardens by Lemons Funeral Home. A prayer service will be 7 tonight in Lemons Memorial Chapel. Mr. DeLeon died Saturday, Aug. 13, 2005, at his home. He was born April 20, 1937, in Raymondville, to Federico and Bonita Guerra DeLeon. On March 13, 1956, he married Maria Urrutia in Raymondville. Mr. DeLeon worked as a foreman for Occidental Chemical Co. (OxyChem). Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Sandra DeLeon of Plainview; four sons, Rudy DeLeon of San Antonio, Fred DeLeon, Salvador DeLeon and Richard DeLeon of Plainview; five sisters, Elvia Capetillo and Aurora Zuniga of Toppenish, Wash., Eva Hernandez of Yakima, Wash., Cruz Viscalla of Mount Vernon, Wash., and Rosa Ruiz of Pasco, Wash.; two brothers, Juan DeLeon and Carlos DeLeon of Toppenish, Wash.; 11 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. His parents; a son, Rudy DeLeon Jr., who died in 1958; a sister, Olaya Escamilla; and a brother, Jesus DeLeon, are deceased.