Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Monday, January 21, 1963

I. C. Mobley Funeral Rites To Be Today

Funeral services for I. C. Mobley, 58, of Rodessa, a veteran of 30 years of service with the United Gas organization, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Hanner Funeral Home chapel at Vivian. Mr. Mobley died unexpectedly of a heart attack at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Officiating the services will be the Rev. Hershel Wall, pastor of Walnut Hill Baptist Church. Burial will be in Chapel Wood Cemetery at Vivian.

Mr. Mobley is survived by his widow; a daughter, Mrs. Howard Hammock of Great Bend, Kan.; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Robert Maynor of Great Bend, Kan., and Mrs. Royce Cole of Tyler, Tex.; two stepsons, Gene Guest of Bossier City and Herbert Browning of Rodessa; three brothers, Sam of Alexandria, Earl of Beamont, Tex., and Homer of Bess[e]mer, Ala.; two sisters, Mrs. Blanche Mobley of Gilbert and Mrs. Mary Jones of Birmingham, Ala., and 12 grandchildren.

Mr. Mobley, who reached his 30th milestone with United Gas Jan. 18, was a switcher at Rodessa in the North Louisiana Area Production Department of Union Producing Co., wholly-owned production subsidiary of United Gas.

He joined United Gas on Jan. 18, 1933, and worked as a maintenance man at Monroe for three years before transferring to the Shreveport area in 1936. After serving as a driller helper at Shreveport and Sligo from 1936 to 1938, Mr. Mobley moved to Rodessa where he was promoted from roustabout to switcher in 1946. Mr. Mobley was born and educated at Alexandria.