Obit of Humphreys, Louise Adelma Rutledge - Cleveland County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 10 Apr 2011 Return to Cleveland County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cleveland/cleveland.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Resthaven Cemetery--OKC OK Humphreys, Louise Adelma Rutledge "Nanny" Louise Adelma Rutledge Humphreys ("Nanny"), age 78, passed away at home in Provo, Utah, with members of her family by her bedside on August 26, 2007 from complications incident to pancreatic cancer. The first of three children, Adelma was born at old St. Anthony's Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on November 26, 1928, to Kenneth Merrill Rutledge and Georgia Adelma Elledge. In September 1935 the family moved to Norman, Oklahoma where her father was manager of the Safeway grocery store on Crawford Street. Adelma attended Lincoln School for her first two grade school years and Washington School on Flood Street through the seventh grade. She graduated from Norman High School in 1947 as a member of the National Honor Society. She had those most desired teenage characteristics of the time: popularity and personality. In the Trail yearbook under her senior picture she was dubbed "the original personality girl." After high school graduation, while they were both working at the Sooner Theater, she met Robert Leon Humphreys, a student at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. They married in Norman on March 25, 1948 at the First Christian Church during a violent thunderstorm. In their first three years of marriage they welcomed two of their four children, Larry and Debby. When the Korean War began in 1950, Bob was recalled by the Navy to active duty, and the family lived in San Diego, California until 1952. They returned to Norman and Bob consequently graduated from OU. The family then moved to southwest Kansas where Bob worked as an oil field geologist, and where they welcomed Lisa and Kathy into the family. Adelma stayed home as long as she could as mother and homemaker focusing on rearing the children. When the youngest child enrolled in school, she went to work nights as a telephone operator to help support the family. In 1966, Bob and Adelma moved their family back to Norman where Adelma worked for H & R Block and several small accounting firms. She later operated her own small tax and accounting business until the spring of 2006. Her husband of 53 years passed away in October 2001, and she lived alone in the family home until moving, for health reasons, to Utah in October 2006 to live with her son, Larry Humphreys and his family. When Adelma became a grandma, she decided that she wanted to be called Nanny, and that became her name to everyone in the family from then on. Nanny was a wonderful and loyal wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, big sister, and friend. Her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have fond memories of her, and they value the lessons in unconditional love, loyalty, persistence, charity, and family centeredness that she taught them by precept and by example. Her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were always remembered on special occasions and delighted in cards and notes from her. Her picture collection of her extended family was her pride and joy. Family gatherings on holidays and special events were both a feast of food and a feast of love and togetherness. Throughout her life she was a faithful member of the First Christian Church. Her Church family played an important part of her life. She enjoyed reading the weekly church bulletin and staying in touch with what was happening, especially while she was in Utah. Adelma was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and their grandson David Brown. She is survived by her two brothers: Keith Rutledge, and Raymond (Donna) Rutledge, both of Norman; her children Laurance (Penny) Humphreys, Provo, UT; Deborah Brown, Mesa, AZ; Lisa (Rodney) Clevenger, Oklahoma City; and Kathryn (Kenneth) Hines, Norman; 35 grandchildren and spouses, and 29 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 1, 2007 at Guardian Funeral Home in Norman. Family and friends may call Friday evening from 6:00-8:00 at Guardian Funeral Home. Interment will be at Resthaven Cemetery, Oklahoma City, where she will rest beside her husband, Bob, her mother, Georgia, and grandson, David. In lieu of flowers, Adelma requested that donations be given to the Salvation Army. Published in the Daily Herald on 8/28/2007. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Cleveland County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cleveland/cleveland.html