HJR34 Summary

• Honors Rudder Funeral Home on its 103rd anniversary in 2017.

• Recognizes the business founded in 1914 by "Mr. Jack" Rudder and Colonel Ben Ellis, which began by providing caskets and horse-drawn hearse services.

• Chronicles five generations of family ownership and operation, including the modernization with a motorized hearse in 1927 and relocation to a renovated facility in Scottsboro, Alabama in 1983-1984.

• Acknowledges the contributions of family members including A.G. "Dinky" Rudder, John E. Rudder, John Cook Rudder, and Lucas Rudder, plus Mary Anna Rudder's establishment of a flower shop.

• Adopted by the House on January 16, 2018 and the Senate on January 23, 2018.