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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/18/2025)

From an untitled obituary with a handwritten date of 1932: 'R.F. Bunch of West Cherry Street, 72 years old, died at 9:50 o'clock Thursday morning at the Sanitarium of Paris, where he had undergone an emergency operation Wednesday, after a long and serious illness. Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Primitive Baptist Church on North Thirteenth Street conducted by Elder E.D. Brown and others and burial will be at Little Vine cemetery northwest of Paris. His sons will serve as pallbearers. Mr. Bunch is survived by his wife, four brothers, M.S. Bunch of Paris, S.D. Bunch of Floydada, J.E. Bunch of Grapeland, W.E. Bunch of Longview; sister, Mrs. L.A. Manford of San Francisco; seven sons, H.E. Bunch, T.R. Bunch, D.J. Bunch, A.C. Bunch, O.E. Bunch, F.D. Bunch, all of Paris, and G.S. Bunch of Vernon; one daughter, Mrs. W.T. Richey of Blossom; 34 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.'

A memorial written by E.D. Brown of Erick, Okla. 'Raymond Franklin Bunch, the subject of this sketch, was born in the state of Missouri, 23 Nov 1860, and departed this life 27 Oct 1932, making his stay here on earth 71 years, 11 months and 15 days. Came to Texas in 1876, and was married to Miss Olly Cavnar, 25 Nov 1883. To this union were born ten children, 8 boys and 2 girls. Brother Raymond professed a hope in early life, and united with the Primitive Baptist Church on the 4th Sunday in June, 1904; and was ordained to the office of a deacon by the church on the 4th Sunday in July 1910, filling that office faithfully until his death. His life was devoted to his church, his family, and his friends. His ears were ever open to the cry of the unfortunate, and he was ever found ready with a word of counsel and advice; for those that stood in need of it. While his deeds of charity are only known in full by the God he trusted in; but from the years of our association with him we can truthfully say that we have never known a man that helped more people financially than he did; and his home was ever open to his friends and his brethren. As these lines are read, many will be the minds of the Lord's ministry that will turn back to the hours spent in that humble yet comfortable home, and the untiring efforts of him and his precious family to help them bear the burden of the ministry. He left to mourn his passing, a noble companion and mother in Israel, together with seven boys, one girl, thirty four grandchildren, four great grandchildren, four brothers and one sister; besides other relatives, as well as a host of brethren and friends. And while our heart is filled with sorrow over what we feel to be the loss of one of the best friend that we ever had in the world, yet we would say to the bereaved one, 'To weep not' for our loved one had only outstripped us in the race; and in Spirit, has now come into a full realization of that blessed hope that was his in this life; and that precious body that now lives in the silent tomb is only waiting the resurrection morn when it, too, will come forth and be made in the very image of Jesus himself. Ah! blessed hope, that is ours, this morning that we too soon will hear the summon, 'Child your Father calls come home,' and how inexpressibly sweet to us is the thought of the silent city of the dead. The writer tried in weakness to conduct the funeral service at the Primitive Baptist church in Pairs, assisted by Elders, A.E. Brown, A.H. Brown, and H.C. Slate. Brother Raymond's own sons, at this request, acting as pallbearers after which his body was taken to the cemetery at Little Vine church, and after services there by Elder Jim Milligan, a Missionary Baptist, and lifetime friend, his body was laid to rest to await the resurrection. May God bless and comfort all that mourn we pray. Written by the one who loved him. E.D. Brown, Erick, Okla.'

Tombstone is inscribed, 'R.F.' In the burial records of J.W. Milligan, Pastor of Chicota Baptist Church, as Ramon Bunch.