Hunt County, TX - Obits: Ruby Viola Tucker Stone ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Ruby Viola Tucker Stone Wharton, Oklahoma--Ruby Viola Tucker Stone, daughter of Lena Baergen and Omar Tucker, was born December 7, 1921, near Avard, Oklahoma. She died at the Alva Beadles Nursing Home on the April 26, 2004, at the age of eighty-two years, four months, and nineteen days. Funeral services were at 11:00 AM Saturday, May 1, 2004, at Wharton Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. John Clapp, pastor of Alva Bible Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was made at Alva Municipal Cemetery in Alva, Oklahoma. She attended the first grade at Waynoka and Alva, second through eighth at Manila School, Alva, and she worked for Fred Taylor, Omar Parker, Elmer King, and Mrs. Mattie Ellis at a boarding house for college students. Miss Tucker was married to Chester H. Stone on July 2, 1938, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. To their marriage three children, Thelma Stone, Gladys Stone, and Clarence "Buck" Stone were born. Following their marriage, they made their home in Alva. In 1944, they went to Fort Riley, Kansas, where Chet was in the US Army for a short time. In 1949, they returned to Alva where she worked for the Alva General Hospital for five and a half years, then for the Sacred Heart Catholic School of Alva for six and a half years. She cooked for the Zion Lutheran School in Alva, then went to the Alva Share Medical Center in the laundry department; and in 1994, she retired. After her retirement, she stayed at home and took care of her husband while he was ill. Chet passed away on May 1, 1995. She has done washing, ironing, canning food, and hanging wallpaper. She enjoyed cooking, serving, and gardening. She was a great cook; everyone enjoyed her cooking--especially her cinnamon rolls. She enjoyed her family, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and friends. She was Hawaiian Luau Queen at Beadles Nursing Home in November of 2003 and she attended the Alva Bible Church. Mrs. Stone was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Alice Moore. She is survived by her two daughters and their husbands, Thelma Mitchell and Vernon Mitchell of Blackwell, Oklahoma; and Gladys Trammell and Bob Trammell of Greenville; son and his wife, Clarence Stone and Jan Stone of Topeka, Kansas; seven grandchildren and spouses, Shannon McNamara, Shirley Zimmerman and Steven Zimmerman, Larry Trammell, Jerry Trammell, Tami Arnold and Eddie Arnold, Chet Stone and Shana Stone; seven great-grandchildren, Corley Zimmerman, Stephanie Zimmerman, Angela Zimmerman, Mitch McNamara, Joshua Trammell, Jacob Buck and Emily Buck; two sisters, Frances Herold of Alva, Oklahoma and Dorothy Coss of Clearmont, Florida; a brother, Wayne Tucker of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; a number of nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alva Bible Baptist Church or to the Activities Fund at Beadles Nursing Home. (April 30, 2004, The Greenville Herald Banner) (Larry, Jerry, and Tami were CHS graduates.)