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Ruth Elizabeth Graves

HOOKER, Okla. - Ruth Elizabeth Graves, 86, died Thursday, Dec. 9, 1999.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. today in the First Church of the Nazarene 
with Dr. David A. Hoffman officiating. Burial will be in Rockford, Ill., 
by Roberts Brothers Funeral Home.

Mrs. Graves was born in Detroit and was raised in Eldon, Mo., where she 
attended school. She received a degree in bookkeeping at Peoria, Ill. In 
the early 1950s, she moved to Rockford and lived there until 1988, when 
she moved to Hooker.

She worked for the Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center in Rockford as an 
office manager and bookkeeper for 15 years, retiring in 1972.

Mrs. Graves was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene and 
volunteered with the Texas County Reassurance Program.

She was preceded in death by two daughters, Leota Pankey and Madelyn 
Lindig.

Survivors include three sons, Clarence R. Pankey of Rockford, Paul Pankey 
of Hooker and Walter Pankey of LeRoy, Kan.; two stepdaughters, Rosalyn 
Glavin of Rosehill, Mich., and Roxann Bushree of Ramona, Calif.; a 
brother, Earl Bellin of Pacifica, Calif.; 13 grandchildren; four 
stepgrandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to the Hooker Ambulance Association c/o 
Roberts Brothers Funeral Home, Box 745, Hooker, OK 73945.

Amarillo Daily News Dec. 11, 1999
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