Ruth Aileen Cunningham

© Amarillo Globe-News

Dec. 30, 2001

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COLUMBIA, Mo. - Ruth Aileen Cunningham, 85, died Friday, Dec. 28, 2001.

Services will be at 3 p.m. today in Memorial Baptist Church at Columbia with the Rev. Bob Webb and Bart Tichenor officiating. A second service will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church at McLean with the Rev. Truman Ledbetter and James Martindale officiating. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery at McLean by Memorial Funeral Home of Columbia.

Mrs. Cunningham was born Oct. 5, 1916, in Elmer, Okla., to Floyd and Maggie E. Wooley Williams. She married Orville W. Cunningham in El Dorado, Okla., on Aug. 29, 1940.

She was a member of Memorial Baptist Church in Columbia. Her life taught us about Christian love; her death taught us how to face eternity with confidence, peace and dignity.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother; and a sister.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Karon Tomerlin and husband, Jerry, of Columbia; a sister, Berneice Briscoe of Abilene; a grandson, Dana Cunningham; a granddaughter, Lorna Hill and her husband, Mike, of Springfield, Mo.; and a great-grandson, Jamie Hill of Springfield.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church in McLean.

The family suggests memorials be to Scholarship Fund, Samnorwood I.S.D., in care of Bonita Myers, Samnorwood, Texas.

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