Duncan Banner, Sun., Apr. 13, 2008
RUTH PACE, 84, of Duncan, died from respiratory failure Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in Duncan Regional Hospital. A memorial service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, in Don Grantham Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Tracy L. Wilson officiating. After the service, the family will receive friends at Ruth's home until noon. A graveside service will be conducted at 3 p.m., April 16, at the Riverside Cemetery in Mangum, with the Rev. Benjamin Van Vacter of First Baptist Church, Granite, officiating.
Ruth was born in Granite on Aug. 9, 1923, to Emmet L. and Anne Mackey Bevis. She attended grade school in Granite and high school in Mangum where, among extracurricular activities, she played the violin in the school orchestra and had the time of her life as a member of the Sweet Sixteens. She graduated from Mangum High School in 1941 and was salutatorian. After graduation, Ruth attended Hill's Business College in Oklahoma City.
In 1944, she enlisted in the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). She was assigned to the Naval Communications Annex on Nebraska Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C., where one of her duties was to plot coordinates for the routing of Atlantic convoys. On July 28, 1945, at Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., Ruth married Edward Lee Pace of Mangum, who was serving in the Army Air Corps.
After discharge from the service, Ruth worked as a secretary for the Farm Security Administration, the War Assets Administration, the War Department and the Department of the Army. She also spent 18 years with the Federal Aviation Administration in Denver and Oklahoma City, retiring in 1987 as secretary to the Division Chief of the Airman and Aircraft Registry located at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City.
During the course of their marriage, Ruth and Ed moved 15 times and lived in Washington, D.C., Texas, Wyoming, Venezuela, Argentina, South Dakota and Colorado before returning to their home state in 1983. They moved to Duncan in 1987.
Ruth loved animals, especially cats. She was an avid reader of news magazines and newspapers and listened often to National Public Radio and Book TV. She wrote vividly and well, was a meticulous chronicler of family history and maintained scrapbooks for her children for 50 years. She laughed easily, and most liked the humor of Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett and Garrison Keillor. A tireless yard worker, she dug countless beds, planted myriad varieties of shrubs and mowed her own lawn until she was 81.
Lively and engaging, Ruth had a remarkable memory for facts, names, interesting stories people related, and insightful and/or humorous comments they made. She rarely missed the opportunity to pay a compliment or write a note of appreciation. She savored every one of life's delights and hardly ever gave a second thought to its bumps along the way.
In 1935, Ruth became a Christian at First Baptist Church, Granite, where her mother taught the Young People's Sunday School Class for 19 years. Ruth had a lifelong interest in Bible study and memorized dozens of Bible verses. She led both her children to Christ and was active in a church wherever she lived. For the last 20 years of her life, she was a member of First Christian Church in Duncan, and belonged to the Harmony Sunday School Class.
Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Joe Bevis; and her husband. She is survived by a daughter, Anne Pace of Duncan; a son, James Edward Pace of Fort Collins, Colo.; a sister, Jane Head of Mangum; and two cats, Mary Sue and Yellow Kitty.
RUTH PACE, 84, of Duncan, died from respiratory failure Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in Duncan Regional Hospital. A memorial service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, in Don Grantham Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Tracy L. Wilson officiating. After the service, the family will receive friends at Ruth's home until noon. A graveside service will be conducted at 3 p.m., April 16, at the Riverside Cemetery in Mangum, with the Rev. Benjamin Van Vacter of First Baptist Church, Granite, officiating.
Ruth was born in Granite on Aug. 9, 1923, to Emmet L. and Anne Mackey Bevis. She attended grade school in Granite and high school in Mangum where, among extracurricular activities, she played the violin in the school orchestra and had the time of her life as a member of the Sweet Sixteens. She graduated from Mangum High School in 1941 and was salutatorian. After graduation, Ruth attended Hill's Business College in Oklahoma City.
In 1944, she enlisted in the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). She was assigned to the Naval Communications Annex on Nebraska Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C., where one of her duties was to plot coordinates for the routing of Atlantic convoys. On July 28, 1945, at Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., Ruth married Edward Lee Pace of Mangum, who was serving in the Army Air Corps.
After discharge from the service, Ruth worked as a secretary for the Farm Security Administration, the War Assets Administration, the War Department and the Department of the Army. She also spent 18 years with the Federal Aviation Administration in Denver and Oklahoma City, retiring in 1987 as secretary to the Division Chief of the Airman and Aircraft Registry located at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City.
During the course of their marriage, Ruth and Ed moved 15 times and lived in Washington, D.C., Texas, Wyoming, Venezuela, Argentina, South Dakota and Colorado before returning to their home state in 1983. They moved to Duncan in 1987.
Ruth loved animals, especially cats. She was an avid reader of news magazines and newspapers and listened often to National Public Radio and Book TV. She wrote vividly and well, was a meticulous chronicler of family history and maintained scrapbooks for her children for 50 years. She laughed easily, and most liked the humor of Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett and Garrison Keillor. A tireless yard worker, she dug countless beds, planted myriad varieties of shrubs and mowed her own lawn until she was 81.
Lively and engaging, Ruth had a remarkable memory for facts, names, interesting stories people related, and insightful and/or humorous comments they made. She rarely missed the opportunity to pay a compliment or write a note of appreciation. She savored every one of life's delights and hardly ever gave a second thought to its bumps along the way.
In 1935, Ruth became a Christian at First Baptist Church, Granite, where her mother taught the Young People's Sunday School Class for 19 years. Ruth had a lifelong interest in Bible study and memorized dozens of Bible verses. She led both her children to Christ and was active in a church wherever she lived. For the last 20 years of her life, she was a member of First Christian Church in Duncan, and belonged to the Harmony Sunday School Class.
Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Joe Bevis; and her husband. She is survived by a daughter, Anne Pace of Duncan; a son, James Edward Pace of Fort Collins, Colo.; a sister, Jane Head of Mangum; and two cats, Mary Sue and Yellow Kitty.
Duncan Banner, Sun., Apr. 13, 2008
RUTH PACE, 84, of Duncan, died from respiratory failure Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in Duncan Regional Hospital. A memorial service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, in Don Grantham Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Tracy L. Wilson officiating. After the service, the family will receive friends at Ruth's home until noon. A graveside service will be conducted at 3 p.m., April 16, at the Riverside Cemetery in Mangum, with the Rev. Benjamin Van Vacter of First Baptist Church, Granite, officiating.
Ruth was born in Granite on Aug. 9, 1923, to Emmet L. and Anne Mackey Bevis. She attended grade school in Granite and high school in Mangum where, among extracurricular activities, she played the violin in the school orchestra and had the time of her life as a member of the Sweet Sixteens. She graduated from Mangum High School in 1941 and was salutatorian. After graduation, Ruth attended Hill's Business College in Oklahoma City.
In 1944, she enlisted in the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). She was assigned to the Naval Communications Annex on Nebraska Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C., where one of her duties was to plot coordinates for the routing of Atlantic convoys. On July 28, 1945, at Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., Ruth married Edward Lee Pace of Mangum, who was serving in the Army Air Corps.
After discharge from the service, Ruth worked as a secretary for the Farm Security Administration, the War Assets Administration, the War Department and the Department of the Army. She also spent 18 years with the Federal Aviation Administration in Denver and Oklahoma City, retiring in 1987 as secretary to the Division Chief of the Airman and Aircraft Registry located at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City.
During the course of their marriage, Ruth and Ed moved 15 times and lived in Washington, D.C., Texas, Wyoming, Venezuela, Argentina, South Dakota and Colorado before returning to their home state in 1983. They moved to Duncan in 1987.
Ruth loved animals, especially cats. She was an avid reader of news magazines and newspapers and listened often to National Public Radio and Book TV. She wrote vividly and well, was a meticulous chronicler of family history and maintained scrapbooks for her children for 50 years. She laughed easily, and most liked the humor of Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett and Garrison Keillor. A tireless yard worker, she dug countless beds, planted myriad varieties of shrubs and mowed her own lawn until she was 81.
Lively and engaging, Ruth had a remarkable memory for facts, names, interesting stories people related, and insightful and/or humorous comments they made. She rarely missed the opportunity to pay a compliment or write a note of appreciation. She savored every one of life's delights and hardly ever gave a second thought to its bumps along the way.
In 1935, Ruth became a Christian at First Baptist Church, Granite, where her mother taught the Young People's Sunday School Class for 19 years. Ruth had a lifelong interest in Bible study and memorized dozens of Bible verses. She led both her children to Christ and was active in a church wherever she lived. For the last 20 years of her life, she was a member of First Christian Church in Duncan, and belonged to the Harmony Sunday School Class.
Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Joe Bevis; and her husband. She is survived by a daughter, Anne Pace of Duncan; a son, James Edward Pace of Fort Collins, Colo.; a sister, Jane Head of Mangum; and two cats, Mary Sue and Yellow Kitty.
RUTH PACE, 84, of Duncan, died from respiratory failure Tuesday, April 8, 2008, in Duncan Regional Hospital. A memorial service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, in Don Grantham Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Tracy L. Wilson officiating. After the service, the family will receive friends at Ruth's home until noon. A graveside service will be conducted at 3 p.m., April 16, at the Riverside Cemetery in Mangum, with the Rev. Benjamin Van Vacter of First Baptist Church, Granite, officiating.
Ruth was born in Granite on Aug. 9, 1923, to Emmet L. and Anne Mackey Bevis. She attended grade school in Granite and high school in Mangum where, among extracurricular activities, she played the violin in the school orchestra and had the time of her life as a member of the Sweet Sixteens. She graduated from Mangum High School in 1941 and was salutatorian. After graduation, Ruth attended Hill's Business College in Oklahoma City.
In 1944, she enlisted in the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES). She was assigned to the Naval Communications Annex on Nebraska Avenue in northwest Washington, D.C., where one of her duties was to plot coordinates for the routing of Atlantic convoys. On July 28, 1945, at Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., Ruth married Edward Lee Pace of Mangum, who was serving in the Army Air Corps.
After discharge from the service, Ruth worked as a secretary for the Farm Security Administration, the War Assets Administration, the War Department and the Department of the Army. She also spent 18 years with the Federal Aviation Administration in Denver and Oklahoma City, retiring in 1987 as secretary to the Division Chief of the Airman and Aircraft Registry located at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City.
During the course of their marriage, Ruth and Ed moved 15 times and lived in Washington, D.C., Texas, Wyoming, Venezuela, Argentina, South Dakota and Colorado before returning to their home state in 1983. They moved to Duncan in 1987.
Ruth loved animals, especially cats. She was an avid reader of news magazines and newspapers and listened often to National Public Radio and Book TV. She wrote vividly and well, was a meticulous chronicler of family history and maintained scrapbooks for her children for 50 years. She laughed easily, and most liked the humor of Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett and Garrison Keillor. A tireless yard worker, she dug countless beds, planted myriad varieties of shrubs and mowed her own lawn until she was 81.
Lively and engaging, Ruth had a remarkable memory for facts, names, interesting stories people related, and insightful and/or humorous comments they made. She rarely missed the opportunity to pay a compliment or write a note of appreciation. She savored every one of life's delights and hardly ever gave a second thought to its bumps along the way.
In 1935, Ruth became a Christian at First Baptist Church, Granite, where her mother taught the Young People's Sunday School Class for 19 years. Ruth had a lifelong interest in Bible study and memorized dozens of Bible verses. She led both her children to Christ and was active in a church wherever she lived. For the last 20 years of her life, she was a member of First Christian Church in Duncan, and belonged to the Harmony Sunday School Class.
Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Joe Bevis; and her husband. She is survived by a daughter, Anne Pace of Duncan; a son, James Edward Pace of Fort Collins, Colo.; a sister, Jane Head of Mangum; and two cats, Mary Sue and Yellow Kitty.
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