Obit of Gunn, Ruby - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 19 Mar 2006 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Arlington Memory Gardens Cemetery--Spencer OK Gunn, Ruby Services for Mrs. Ruby Gunn of Jones, who with her husband, Leslie, worked 33 years for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma and the North America Mission Board as missionaries to the deaf, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 27) in the First Baptist Church of Choctaw, where she was a member. The Rev. Ray Sikes, pastor of the church, will officiate with burial in Arlington Memory Gardens, 3400 N. Midwest Blvd. Services will be under direction of the Barnes & Johnson Funeral Home of Midwest City. She was 89. The Gunns worked with the First Baptist Church of Oklahoma City and several other state churches as well as churches in Kansas and Missouri. They also worked in churches from Texas to Florida. They retired from the mission board in 1973 and started a deaf work at First Southern Baptist Church of Del City, working there for several years. Even though her husband died in 1990, Mrs. Gunn continued to work with the deaf, starting a deaf ministry at the First Baptist Church in Choctaw. She also taught sign language classes, including a class at Rose State College in Midwest City, served as an interpreter and trained other interpreters. She wrote a book entitled 'Happiness Ahead' detailing the work of her and her husband. Mrs. Gunn was born in Drumright June 28, 1916. She and the Rev. Gunn were married in Oklahoma City in 1936. She was preceded in death, in addition to her husband, by her parents, a sister and a grandson. Survivors include two daughters; Peggy and her husband, Jack Stone, of Anadarko; Ann, and her husband, Bob Evans of Jones; a son, Wade Gunn, and his wife, Sharon, of Jones; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren, and one brother, Ray Horn of Eufaula. Memorial gifts can be given to First Baptist Church, Choctaw, OK. Barnes & Johnson Funeral Home 1820 S. Douglas Blvd Midwest City 733-2991 Published in The Oklahoman on 8/25/2005. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html