Richard Raymond Grun

(October 5, 1941 ~ August 14, 1993)

Richard, son of Russell House Grun and Edna Lolete Baker, married to Vera JoAnn Sansom and buried in Midway Cemetery, Goldsboro, Coleman County, Texas.

Taylor County pair drowns in tubing accident

JUNCTION - Two Taylor County men drowned while tubing in the South Llano River about 18 miles south of Junction in Kimble County Saturday afternoon.

Bill Baldwin, 55, of Abilene, and Richard Raymond Gruen, 51, of Tuscola, fell off their tubes after going over a waterfall, said Kimble County Justice of the Peace Jack Jones.

Gruen's body was recovered about 4:25 p.m., Jones said.  He said serchers located Baldwin's body about four hours later.

The bodies were taken to Aubrey Fife Funerals in Junction.  Jones said he ruled the deaths accidental.

The search was directed by the Parks and Wildlife Department and the Kimble County Sheriff's Office.