Services will be at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, March 26, 2004 at the First Baptist Church of Canyon with Rev. David Lowrie, pastor, officiating. There will be a visitation on Thursday, March 25, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Brooks Chapel. Burial will be in Dreamland Cemetery. Mr. Caruthers was born on July 6, 1914 in Denton County, Texas to George and Gertrude Caruthers. His mother died when he was two weeks old. His family moved to Floyd County in 1929 and he received his education in a rural school. He attended church from childhood and accepted Christ as his Savior at the age of ten. He was baptized into the Baptist Church in Lewisville. He was ordained a deacon in the local church in Dougherty in 1942, and served in that capacity in the churches where he had become a resident. In 1939, D.C. married Ida Mae Owens at McAdoo, Texas. In 1949, they moved their family to Hayes, South Dakota where he had bought a cattle and wheat farm. He became a very successful farmer with a number of outstanding accomplishments and received the following awards: Certificate of achievement for Soil Conservation, 1963-1967, Appreciation of Service from West Central Electric, 1973, and the Award for the best wheat crop in three counties with 66 bushels per acre. He also served on a number of committees and board of directors including Rural Electric Association, Rural Telephone Association, Farmers Union, Hayes Dramatics Club, Hayes Hall Board, Hayes Ball Club, Stanley County ASCS, and the West Central Electric Cooperative. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Fort Pierre, SD and later transferred his membership to Canyon Masonic Lodge. He was a member of the Scottish Rite of Yankton, SD and received his 32nd degree in 1969. After 35 years in South Dakota, he retired and moved back to Canyon in 1983. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Canyon, and his favorite bible verse was Psalm 103:1-5. He was preceded in death by his wife in July of 1996, after fifty-six years and six months of marriage. He was also preceded in death by one brother, S.N. Caruthers in December, 1960, and one sister, Vivian Wesley Boyd, in August, 1999. Surivors include one daughter, Linda (Susy) Beck, of Canyon; two sons, Steve Caruthers, and wife, Sue, of Colorado Springs, CO, and Marvin Caruthers, of Pierre, SD; eight grandchildren, Suzette Hohwieler, and husband, Chad, of Sioux Falls, SD, Dona Mae Johnson, and husband, Jeff, of Pierre, SD, R.D. Sandal, and wife, Maree, of Longmont, CO, Julie Ravenscroft, and husband, Steve, of Hyannis, Nebraska, Heidi French, and husband, Daron, of Oloha, Oregon, Polly Correa, and husband, Jimmy, of Boone, CO, and Levi and Luke Caruthers, of Pierre, SD; ten great grandchildren, and a host of friends. The family suggests memorials be to the Canyon Senior Citizens Center, 1719 5th Avenue, Canyon, Texas 79015 or the First Baptist Church, 1717 4th Avenue, Canyon, Texas 79015.