Ruby Kirkpatrick

Tuesday, February 08, 1910 to Friday, January 28, 2005 A Resident of Marble Hill, MO Visitation Services will be held on Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill, MO Funeral Services will be held on Monday, January 31, 2005 at 11:00 AM at the Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill, MO The Final Resting Place is at the Bollinger County Memorial Park Cemetery near Marble Hill, MO Ruby Kirkpatrick, age 94, of Marble Hill, MO, died Friday, January 28, 2005 at the Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born February 8, 1910 near Marble Hill, MO, daughter of Otto William and Dora Mae Barks Reutzel. She and Hadley Kirkpatrick were married April 14, 1932, He died March 4, 1997. Ruby started teaching in the schools of Bollinger County when she was seventeen years old. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Southeast Missouri University in 1960. She continued in Bollinger County for 35 years. She was a member of the Missouri State Teaches Association. She was a Member of the United Methodist Church of Marble Hill, also attended the Bible Chapel Church of Marble Hill, a member of the United Methodist Women's Missionary Society, a past member of the Alpha Delta Kappa Gamma Chapter, a Teachers Sorority of MO, listed in who's who in Missouri Education as one of Missouri's outstanding Educators. Survivors include two daughter's and a son-in-law Mary Ann and Jerome Gaines, Marble Hill, MO, Elizabeth N. Barkhurst of Princeton, Indiana, one brother Cletus Reutzel, Jackson, MO, one sister Bonnie Jean Grindstaff, Scopus, MO, five grandchildren Lary Gaines, Ginger Whittman, Shannon Gaines, Eric Barkhurst, and Renee Merrill, eleven great grandchildren and many other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by one brother Orville Reutzel, and one sister Clodine Barks. Visitation will be Sunday, January 30, 2005 from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill. Funeral service will be Monday at 11:00 AM at the funeral home chapel with the Rev. John Englehart officiating. Burial will follow in the Bollinger County Memorial Park Cemetery near Marble Hill.

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Ruby Kirkpatrick

February 8, 1910 - January 28, 2005