Obit for McCollum, Ruth - Oklahoma County OK

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Amarillo Globe News 10 Aug 1997

Ruth McCollum



Ruth McCollum, 76, of Amarillo, died Friday, Aug. 8, 1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in First Baptist Church at Edmonson with 
the Rev. Carter Frey, minister of education and administration at First 
Baptist Church in Rosenburg, officiating. Burial will be in Parklawn 
Memorial Gardens at Plainview by Lemons Funeral Home of Plainview.

Mrs. McCollum was born and raised in Quanah. She graduated from Quanah 
High School. After her marriage in 1940 to Troy McCollum in Oklahoma City, 
she lived in Oklahoma City. She moved to Mayfield in 1955 and to Edmonson 
in 1957.

She was a member of the Edmonson First Baptist Church and served as church 
clerk for many years, and also worked with the pre-school children. She 
moved to Amarillo in 1990.

She was preceded in death by her husband on April 21.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Carter Frey of Rosenberg; two sons, 
Mike McCollum of Tulia and Bruce McCollum of Lubbock; three brothers, 
Homer Jackson of Amarillo, Earl Jackson of Kinwood and Royce Jackson of 
Lubbock; two sisters, Ophelia Jackson and Joyce Burch, both of Quanah; and 
seven grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to Edmonson First Baptist Church or 
Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice and Life Enrichment Center.

The family will meet at the church at noon Monday and viewing will be from 
1 p.m. until service time Monday.
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