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Ruby Haltom © Enid Morning News 11-1981 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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Funeral rites for Ruby Haltom, 66, will be at 2 PM Monday in the Hopeton Wesleyan Church with the Rev. Dan Bebermeyer and the Rev. Marion Hadsell officiating.
Mrs. Haltom will be buried in the Alva Municipal Cemetery with arrangements under the direction of the Wharton Funeral Chapel of Alva.
The casket will be open at Henninger – Allen Funeral Home until noon Saturday and at Wharton's until Monday noon. It will be open at the church until service time and will not be opened afterward.
Mrs. Haltom died suddenly Thursday morning in her home at 1622 S. Monroe of an apparent heart attack.
She was born west of Aline November 4, 1915, the daughter of Earl and Elvira Sale Davis. As a child she moved with her family to Lamar, Colorado, and in 1933 to Alva where she graduated from Alva high school with the class of 1934.
She and Otis Haltom were married June 1, 1936, in Alva. They farmed south of Hopeton for a time. After he began work for the Oklahoma Highway Patrol they lived in Ardmore, Durant, Ada and Oklahoma City before moving to Enid in 1949.
Mrs. Haltom carried a large paper route for both the Enid Morning News and the Enid Daily Eagle for more than 25 years and was still working at the time of her death.
She was preceded in death by an infant sister Mabel, and another sister Beulah Neal.
Mrs. Haltom is survived by her husband Otis of the home; a daughter Alicia (Mrs. Kenneth) Maddox, Enid; a son, Hoyle Haltom of Anchorage, Alaska; six grandchildren; her stepmother, Mae Lee of Alva and a brother, Wilbur Davis, Wichita, Kansas.
The family will be at the Maddox home at 1022 W. Thompson here and at the Andrew Haltom home in Alva.
Mrs. Haltom's family has suggested that those who wish make contributions in her memory to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Heart Fund. Contributions may be made through Henninger – Allen Funeral Home or through the Wharton Funeral Service.
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