Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK

July 8, 2007

Submitted by: Jo AGUIRRE

RUTH GENEVIEVE HUDSON

A graveside service for Ruth Genevieve Hudson, age 100 will be held, Monday July 9, 2007 at 9:00 am in Memorial Park Cemetery. Dr. C. Jarrell Tyson will officiate. Arrangements are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.

Ruth was born October 30, 1906 in Iola, KS to Forest and Ethel Williams and died, Thursday, July 5, 2007. in Bedford, TX. She graduated from Sand Springs High School in 1923. She attended Tulsa University, North Western University and Wichita University. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education from Tulsa University. She won first place in Voice at Oklahoma University in 1923 in a high school contest.

As a teacher, she taught in Sand Springs, Tulsa, and Blackwell, OK and in Wichita, KS. She taught for 45 years in public schools in the music department. She directed church choirs in Blackwell, OK and Wichita, KS. She broadcasted from KUOC from 1930-1931 in Tulsa. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Education Hall of Fame, June 1994.

Ruth was a member of the Eastern Star in Blackwell, OK, and the music fraternity, Sigma Alpha Iota. She did volunteer work in Enid, OK at St Mary’s Hospital from 1982-1990. She played the organ for chapel services at the Methodist Home. She played piano solos for Parkinson’s Sunday School Class at First Methodist Church and at Greenbrier’s Nursing Home the first Monday of every month.

She is survived by her step daughter, Marcia Frazier of CA; two grandsons, Tim Frazier and Scott Frazier of CA; three great-grandsons, Derek, Nathan and Michael ;and two great granddaughters, Barbara and Karen Ruth.