Ranger Exes Memorial - RHS Class of 1930


ELIZABETH NEAL STROUD, 73, was born Jan. 23, 1913 in
Ranger, TX and was in the Ranger High School Class of 
1930 at Ranger.  Her brother was Presley K. Neal & her
sister was Lillian Neal Eastland.  Elizabeth attended
St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in Fort Worth and
became an LVN.  She returned to Ranger and married 
Herman Neal Stroud who was working on her father's 
farm. They lived their entire lives in Ranger, except
for the time Mr. Stroud served in the U.S. Navy during
WWII. Herman Stroud served on the Ranger School Board 
during 1965-1966 and died in Ranger on Feb. 12, 1967.
 
They adopted a daughter, Catherine (RHS-1965), at 
birth in 1947 and later adopted two sons in 1963, 
Ronnie & Robert. Robert died when he was a teenager
in 1972.
 
Elizabeth worked as a nurse at the West Texas Clinic 
and later at Ranger General Hospital. She also worked 
as a private duty nurse and worked at Ranger's nursing 
home, the Western Manor.  She usually took summers off 
to stay home with her daughter, when they would harvest 
and can or freeze the vegetables from their large garden. 
After school started again in the fall, she would usually 
return to work as a nurse.  She was active in church,
Eastside Baptist (her grandfather founded Ranger's 
Second Baptist Church), and in the LVN Association and 
was a member of Eastern Star.  After Mr. Stroud died, 
she later sold the farm and moved into town where her 
granddaughters would visit her for wonderful summers in 
Ranger. 
 
Elizabeth became very ill in 1985 & lived in the Western 
Manor nursing home for a period of time until she had 
progressed well enough to move into her own apartment.  
Arrangements for an apartment at the Gholson Hotel were 
made but she went to Katy, TX, to visit her daughter 
and died there on June 18, 1986 before returning to Ranger.  
She was buried at Evergreen Cemetery next to Mr. Stroud
and their adopted son, Robert L. Stroud.  
 
She is survived by her daughter, Catherine Burns and her 
husband, Ray, of Delray Beach, FL; the son, Ronnie Stroud; 
two granddaughters, Jeanette Livingston and her husband 
Mike and daughter Shyanne Thompson of Baltimore, MD, and 
Joya Albritton and her husband Marc and son Alexander 
and daughter Jordan of Wellington, FL.