Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....(Sweazy) Rainwater , Ruth Mildred  September 15 2004
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Ruth M. (Sweazy) Rainwater 

Mar. 18, 1923 Sept. 15, 2004 

Graveside services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on September 18, 2004 at 
Greenlawn Memorial Park, 3700 River Blvd, for Ruth Mildred Rainwater, 81, of 
Bakersfield, who passed away quietly in her sleep on Sept. 15, 2004 after a 
short illness. Visitation will be Friday, September 17, 2004 from 4-8 p.m. at 
Bakersfield Family Funeral Directors, 701 34Th Street.

Ruth was born in Spiro, Oklahoma on March 18, 1923, in the house her Daddy 
built, on the 160 acre farm he had purchased from the Cherokee Nation. She 
moved to California in 1948, settling in Bakersfield. She worked as a back-up 
cook at various restaurants in town, including Freddies Skyway House at the 
airport and the Red Lion Hotel. In 1981, she began working for United 
Courier/Armed Transport as a dispatcher, retiring from there in 1992. She 
truly loved all the people she worked with and kept in touch with a few 
special ones throughout the years.

Ruth touched many people with her love, her zest for life, her laughter, and 
her crochet. She loved making spongies that she gave to family and friends. 
She also made doilies and many new babies received a crocheted baby blanket 
made especially for them. Ruth didnt know a stranger. She could talk to anyone 
about anything and made friends everywhere in the grocery store, the drug 
store, anywhere. She loved her childrens friends as if they were her own and 
was Momma Ruth to many.

Ruth was preceded in death by her parents, James and Blanche Sweazy; brother, 
Carl; sons, James Jim Wright and Allen Rainwater; grandson, Phillip Rainwater. 
Ruth is survived by her loving husband of 56 years, Alfred Rainwater of 
Bakersfield; her children, Wayne Wright and wife, Eileen of Merced, Larry 
Rainwater, Linda Petree and spouse, Joe Avilez, all of Bakersfield; 
grandchildren, Lori and Matt Wright, David and Debbie Wright, Chris and Amy 
Petree, Amber and Tom Fischer, James, Shayna, Crystal, Albert and Shyanna 
Rainwater, Faith Comer, and Robert Branch; great-grandchildren, Janniche, Tor, 
Blake, Caleb, Levi and Cody; and numerous nephews, nieces, other relatives and 
fiends.

Mom. You have always been my best friend, my confidante, my hero and the 
sunshine of my life.


We will love you forever and miss you for always


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