RUBY FLORENCE LEMBKE

© Published in Enid, OK. News

May 9, 2006

Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes

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RUBY FLORENCE LEMBKE

The funeral for Ruby Florence Lembke, 90, will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Byron Christian Church. Vernie Havorka will officiate. Burial will be in Byron & Amorita Cemetery. Arrangements are by Goodwin Funeral Home, Cherokee.

She was born Aug. 20, 1915, to Harrison and Ella Adams Holland and died Friday, May 5, 2006, at Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kan.

She married Charles Theadore Lembke Aug. 30, 1942, in Cherokee. They made their first home in Wichita, moving to Byron in 1945 when they bought Lembke Garage. In 1977, they bought the local grocery store where she worked until they sold the store in 1984. She was a member of Byron Christian Church where she played piano. She helped found Byron & Amorita Fire Department. She worked at Boeing and Dunn and Bradstreet in Wichita, operated a café in Byron, worked as a waitress at both the Cherokee and Kiowa, Kan., Stockyard Cafés and worked as a health-care provider. She later moved to Wichita to be near her son.

Surviving are one son, Gary Lembke of Wichita; one sister, Loretta Wohlschlegel of Goddard, Kan.; one brother, Donnie Holland of Medicine Lodge, Kan.; and two grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Charley; four brothers and two sisters.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Byron City Park to purchase a bench.