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Amarillo Globe News 26 Feb 1998

Ruby K. Rapp

HOOKER, Okla. - Ruby K. Rapp, 91, died Thursday, Feb. 19, 1998.

Services were at 2 p.m. Saturday in United Methodist Church with the Rev. 
David Cook officiating. Burial was in Hooker Cemetery by Roberts Brothers 
Funeral Home.

Mrs. Rapp was born in Garden City, Mo. In 1907, her family moved to the 
Oklahoma Panhandle, where they homesteaded northwest of Hooker. She 
attended Prairie Rose School.

She married Louis Rapp in 1927 at her family's homestead. They moved to 
Lowry City, Mo., where they farmed. Two years later, they moved to Hooker, 
where they farmed northwest of town until 1943, when they bought their 
farm south of Hooker.

Mr. Rapp died in 1961. Mrs. Rapp continued to live on the farm until 1995, 
when she moved to Good Samaritan Home in Liberal, Kan.

She was a member of United Methodist Church of Hooker. She taught Sunday 
school and was a member of the Builder Class.

Mrs. Rapp also was preceded in death by two sons, Sheldon and infant Emil 
Ray.

Survivors include two sons, Loren Rapp and Jim Rapp, both of Hooker; three 
daughters, Roberta Cantrell of Amarillo, Ruth E. Boyles of Hooker and Beth 
Southern of Westchester, Pa.; a brother, Sammie Matter of Hooker; a 
sister, Ivy Hilty of Madras, Ore.; 16 grandchildren; and 23 great-
grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to Good Samaritan Home or a favorite 
charity. Memorials may be left at Roberts Brothers Funeral Home, Box 745, 
Hooker, Okla. 73945.
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