Services for Ruby S. Thurman, 78, were Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. in the
Kennedy Funeral Home
Chapel with
Bro. Ray Hilliard officiating.
Mrs. Thurman was born August 20, 1919, at
Greenville,
Texas, and died at her residence in
Marietta on June 8, 1998. She was the daughter of C.T. and
Dona Smith Cotten.
Mrs. Thurman had lived in
Marietta since 1963, previously making her home in
Ralls,
Texas. She and Walter
Dee Thurman were married in 1941 in
Dallas,
Texas. Mrs. Thurman was a retired employee of
Marietta Sportswear and of the Church of
Christ faith.
She is survived by a son, Hershell
Thurman of
Greenville, Texas; a daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Jerry
Jones of
Emory, Texas; two brothers,
Fount Cotten of Tahlequah and Stanley
Cotten of Rockwall, Texas; two grandchildren, Shawna
Thurman of Nashville,
Tennessee, and Kevin
Jones of
Greenville, Texas; and a great-grandson, Michael
Jones.
Mrs. Thurman was preceded in death by her husband on April 27, 1979; and a brother, Thomas
Cotten.
Services were directed by
Kennedy Funeral Home with interment at 4:00 p.m. Wednesday in the
Vansickle Cemetery,
Vansickle Community,
Texas.
Source:
Marietta Monitor,
Love County, June 12, 1998, page 4. Courtesy of Ray and Mrs. E. Weathers.