Obit of Southerland, Mary Ruth - Pushmataha County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 17 Jul 2005 Return to Pushmataha County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pushmataha/pushmataha.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Mary Ruth Southerland Mary Ruth Southerland, 71, of Amarillo, died Saturday, May 16, 1998. The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. today at Blackburn- Shaw Funeral Directors, Memorial Chapel, Fifth Avenue and Pierce St. Private services will be at a later date. Private burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery. Mrs. Southerland was born in Antlers, Okla., and moved to Amarillo 35 years ago. She was employed by Ansley Cleaners and Colberts and Dillards department stores as a seamstress. She married Andrew Southerland in 1942 at Memphis. Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Shirley Nussabaum of Old Monroe, Mo., and Ruby Lummus and Peggy Mathes, both of Amarillo; four sisters, Joyce Allen of Canyon, Lois Ewing of Amarillo, Maurine Rasco of Childress and Patsy Garrett of Carroll; two brothers, Vaudie Holbert of Floydada and Martin Holbert of Houston; six grandchildren; and nine great- grandchildren. Amarillo Globe News - 18 May 1998 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Pushmataha County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/pushmataha/pushmataha.html