Obit for Toews, Ruby Harder - Washita County OK

Thanks to http://www.amarillo.com/ for permission to upload their
obits to the USGenWeb Archives.
Copyright, http://www.amarillo.com/                    16 Dec 2007       
Return to Washita County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/washita/washita.html
=====================================================================
                        USGENWEB NOTICE
                 Copyright.  All rights reserved.
          http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
=====================================================================
::Memorial Park Cemetery--Amarillo TX 

Ruby Harder Toews

AUSTIN - Ruby Harder Toews, 90, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Memorial Park Funeral 
Home Chapel, 6969 E. Interstate 40 in Amarillo. Burial will be in 
Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Toews was born to German Mennonite parents, Gerhard Peter and 
Helena Radowski Harder, on July 18, 1914, near Corn, Okla.

Her early childhood and youth were spent on the family farm near 
Corn. She was the 10th of 11 children. Her family in 1911 emigrated 
to the United States from Welikoknjascheskoje German Mennonite 
Colony, Caucasus, Kuban (now the Ukraine, former Soviet Union).

She married Walter H. Toews in 1936. They made their home in Borger 
and were founding members of the First Christian Church. Ruby was 
active in women's Bible study groups and served as Cub Scout Den 
Mother and Girl Scout Leader.

Ruby was noted for her great sense of humor, love of hard work and 
compassion and empathy for the ill and animals of all kinds. She 
loved a good funeral and often attended those of people she did not 
know well for fear that the service would not be well attended. She 
was also often heard to say, "Give me a good dog story." In later 
years she proudly reflected on her youth on the family farm and the 
fact that she was the fastest picker in the family when it came time 
to harvest the cotton crop. She had ambitions as a girl to follow in 
her mother's footsteps as a practical nurse, midwife and perhaps even 
a doctor. The Depression and lack of money stopped those dreams. But 
she found many avenues for healing, starting with her pet cats and 
farm animals and culminating late in life to nursing a sister who 
suffered from asthma and a brother who died from complications of 
colon cancer.

She was preceded in death by her siblings, Arthur, John, Selma, 
Theodore, Olga, Alexander, Walter, Nikolei, Jacob and Leona.

Survivors include two sons, Harvey Toews and wife, Merle, of Richmond 
and Wallace Toews and wife, Jan, of Plano; a daughter, Anna Toews and 
husband, Robert Kieras, of Austin; two grandsons, Aaron Toews and 
wife, Nicole, of Rowlett and Michael Toews of Austin; a 
granddaughter, Tracy Toews of Houston; and a great-granddaughter, 
Rilee Toews of Rowlett.

The family would like to thank Dee Walo, manager of Shangri-la 
Personal Care Home, for her years of faithful care, advocacy and 
support.

Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Saturday at the chapel.

Amarillo Globe-News, Aug. 27, 2004
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Return to Washita County Archives:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/washita/washita.html