Custer-Dawson County NeArchives Obituaries.....Magoon, Ruth Yvonne Martin January 9, 2011 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/nefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Danny Gruber danny.gruber@gmail.com January 11, 2011, 12:39 pm Lexington Clipper-Herald Jan. 12, 2011 Ruth Yvonne Magoon, 76, of Lexington, died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. Funeral Services will be Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011, at 11 a.m. at Evangelical Free Church in Lexington with Pastor Duane Russell officiating. Visitation will be held Wednesday, Jan.12, 2011, from 5-7 p.m. at the Reynolds- Love Chapel in Lexington. Burial will be held at 2 p.m. at Fort McPherson National Cemetery at Maxwell.  Ruth was born March 14, 1934 at Oconto to Clifford A. and Leota (L. (Flint) Martin.  She was a 1951 graduate of Oconto High School and attended Kearney State Teacher’s College where she received her teaching degree.  She taught for one year at Park Valley School.  She was united in marriage to Sidney A. Magoon on May 5, 1962, at Waukegan, Ill., while Sid was in the Navy.  Survivors include her sons, Randy (Debra) Adams of Cozad, Mike (fiance’ Kathleen) Adams of Lexington; one brother, Roger (Sharon) Martin of Oconto; five sisters, Darlene (Verlouis) Forster of Smithfield, Violet “Vi” Eggleston, Wanda “Bonnie” Eggleston, Beulah Eggleston, all of Oconto, Virginia (Virgil) Coryell of Lexington and four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.  Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Sidney in October of 2010; brother, Clifford Martin; brothers-in-law, Keith Eggleston, Don Eggleston and Ken Eggleston and Jim Davis; sister-in-law, Pearl Martin; nephews, Rodger Eggleston, Travis Eggleston, Joey Davis and Randy Messbarger and one niece, Regina Araujo.  File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ne/custer/obits/m/magoon478gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nefiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb