William Houston "Bubba" Richardson

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William Houston “Bubba” Richardson, 87, of Thompsonville, passed away Monday, May 26, 2014. Buddy was born June 15, 1926 in Gulf, Tex. in Matagorda County to David Allen Richardson and Jane Webb Allsup Richardson. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. 

While in college he served in the U.S. Army at the end of WWII and had been stationed in Japan and Japan’s southern most prefecture, Okinawa. Bubba moved back to Gulf and went to work for Texas Gulf Sulfur as an engineer and then later moved to New Gulf. 

Eventually he moved to Beaumont while working with the company and met a woman who would become his wife, Ella Mina “Pete” Peoples who was working as a bank teller.  Pete and Bubba married September 11, 1953 in Vidor. Longing to share their love, Pete and Bubba adopted an infant girl, Marilyn Richardson, which completed their family.

William Houston Richardson was a hard working man. He was vibrant and full of life, conservative by nature, a great provider and a man that loved little children. After retiring from Texas Gulf Sulfur, he and his wife moved to Thompsonville providing him an opportunity to stay busy raising cattle and working his land. 

He was a member of the Waelder First Baptist Church. He was a spiritual man, a good man that imparted lessons of honesty, the value of trust and the rewards found in caring for people to his grandsons. He further shared his knowledge and love of fishing, hunting, welding, building fence and living justly. His greatest lessons he left them were his faith in God and to always be genuine.

He is survived by his grandsons, Damon Stevenson, Dustin, Stevenson and Dylan Dunigan and sisters-in-law, JoAnne Richardson and Dorothy Richardson. He was preceded in death by his wife, parents, daughter, Marilyn Dunigan and brothers, Charlie, David, George and Gerald Richardson. 

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 31 in Seydler-Hill Funeral Home with Rev. Gene Wilson officiating. Interment will follow in Waelder Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the charity of one’s choice. The family will receive friends from 1-2 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home. Services are under the care and direction of Seydler-Hill Funeral Home.       

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