Obit of Whitecotton, Mary Ruth - Jefferson County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 3 Jan 2005 Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Amarillo Globe News 15 Jun 1997 Mary Ruth Whitecotton MORTON - Mary Ruth Whitecotton, 79, died Friday, June 13, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First Assembly of God with the Rev. Henry Russell of Assembly of God in Floydada, and the Rev. Jimmy Beggs of Assembly of God in Morton, officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Terral Cemetery at Terral, Okla., with the Rev. Charles Parker of Assembly of God, officiating. Arrangements are by Ellis Funeral Home of Morton. Mrs. Whitecotton was born in Jefferson County, Okla. She was an eighthgrade school teacher. She taught math in Morton for 35 years in Neely Ward School, five miles west of Morton, now consolidated into Morton. She also taught for seven years in Jefferson County, Okla. She had retired in 1988. She was a member of the First Assembly of God Church. She married Ernest Whitecotton in 1951 at Nocona. They had lived in Morton since 1951, moving from Jefferson County, Okla. Survivors include her husband; and several nieces and nephews. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm