Ewell Lee Ruphard Jr.

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Ewell Lee Ruphard Jr., 83, Broughton, died 8:55 p.m. Thursday, April 22, 2010, at Wabash Christian Retirement Center, Carmi.

Services will be held 1 p.m. Sunday, April 25, 2010, at Gholson Funeral Home in McLeansboro with the Rev. Robert Sefried officiating. Burial will be in Digby Hill Cemetery near Dale with graveside military rites by American Legion Post No. 106. Visitation is 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home with a Masonic service at 7 p.m.

He is survived by several cousins.