Anniversary of Ruff, Jim & Mattie - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 17 Jul 2005 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== The Chickasha Express-Star 23 January 2005 JIM & MATTIE RUFF RUFFS CELEBRATE 50TH ANNIVERSARY ON JAN. 21 Jim and Mattie Ruff celebrated their 50th anniversary January 21st. They were honored with a family dinner at Old Germany Restaurant in Choctaw, Okla. They met while attending school in Cement, Okla, and married in Perry, Okla. They lived in Carlsbad, New Mexico from 1955 to 1969 and then moved to Chickasha to be near family. They have three children: Karen and husband Dale, sons Arie and Aaron who are finishing school in Emporia, Kansas; Kathy and husband Jim, son Kellis who all live in Carrollton, Texas, and daughter Joy who is a sophomore at OSU; and Stan and wife Jan who reside in El Dorado, Kansas with their three children: Alyssa, Zachary and Mikala, Jim and Mattie spend summers in Colorado as well as traveling with Jim’s seventy and over softball team around the U.S. Their team won the world 70 and over softball tournament this past year in Las Vegas, Nevada. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html