Funeral services for Ruth VanArsdell, 85 of Perry were held at 10 a.m.
Wednesday in Brown-Dugger Funeral Home Chapel in Perry with Rev. Ed Cook
officiating. He was assisted by the Rev. Jim Voigt. Interment followed
in Grace Hill Cemetery in Perry. Services were under the direction of
Brown-Dugger Funeral Home of Perry.
Ruth Grace VanArsdell was born Jan. 9, 1922, in Perry and died Sunday,
Dec. 16, 2007, in Somerville, Tenn. She
was the daughter of Robert James and Grace Viola (Krebs) Huston.
She was a life-long resident of Noble County and
a 1939 graduate of Perry High School. She studied two years at Oklahoma
A&M in Stillwater.
On March 8, 1952, she and Bruce Lee VanArsdell were married in Oklahoma
City. Bruce preceded her in death July 7, 1967.
She retired from the Soil Conservation Service. Ruth was a member of the
First United Methodist Church in Perry and was a 50-year member of the
Red Rock Order of Eastern Star.
In addition to her husband, Bruce, preceding her in death were her
parents, Robert and Grace Huston and one sister, Helen Voigt.
Surviving her is a daughter, Simone Belk and her husband, Larry, of
Somerville, Tenn.; two nephews, Bob Voigt of Owasso and Jim Voigt of St.
Joseph, Mo.; her life-long friend, Martha Louise (Morgan) Haralson of
Bowie, Texas and her loving caregivers, Barbara Harris of Holly Springs,
Miss. and Mary Prysock of Bolivar, Tenn.
Memorials were made to the First United Methodist Church in care of
Brown-Dugger Funeral Home, 1010 N. 7th Street, Perry, Okla. 73077.
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