Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




Mexia Daily News - Jan. 2, 2004 edition

Ruth (Watson) Calame

CORSICANA - Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Watson Calame, 90, of Corsicana,
will be this afternoon at 2 o'clock in Corley Funeral Home Chapel. Dr. David
Hale will officiate, and burial will be in Wortham Cemetery.

Mrs. Calame, born May 5, 1913, in Steward's Mill (Freestone County), died
Wednesday in Corsicana. She was born the second daughter of William Terry and
Ada McAdams Watson, members of a pioneer Freestone County family.

Mrs. Calame, who attended Steward's Mill school and graduated from Wortham High
School in 1929, attended what then was North Texas State Teachers College and
the University of Texas. She was married to Alvis Calame in 1935, and they
resided in Dallas for 40 years.

She worked as a Secretary until her retirement from the J.F. Stevens Company in
1974, was a member of the Scofield Memorial Church and the Scoberrean Study
Club. She and Alvis moved to Corsicana in 1977 and attended Northside Baptist
Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and by a sister, Leola Watson.