Washington Co., AR - Obituaries - Ruth M. Getty

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Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
February 2, 1998

WEST FORK – 

Ruth M. Getty, 89, of West Fork died Feb. 1, 1998, at
Fayetteville Health and Rehab Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 26, 1908, in
Philadelphia, Pa., to Clarence and Elizabeth Reagan Burnett. She was a
homemaker and worked as a dressmaker and tailor during the Great
Depression. She later worked as a bookkeeper and secretary for the American
Baptist Church home office in Valley Forge, Pa., until she retired in 1972.
She moved to Arkansas in 1990. She was preceded in death by her first
husband, William R. Sanborn, and her second husband, Murrell C. Getty.
Survivors include one son, William I. Sanborn of Cross City, Fla.; one
daughter, Ruth Joan Wright of West Fork; three grandchildren; two great-
grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren.
Memorial services will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Family Worship Center in
Greenland with Roger Phillips Jr. officiating.
Memorials may be made in lieu of flowers to the American Cancer Society,
1125 N. College, Fayetteville 72701 or the Family Worship Center Youth
Building Fund, 518 N. Cato Springs Rd., Fayetteville 72701.