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Ruth M. Lamb © Stephens-Key Funeral Home Submitted by: Sharon
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Ruth M. Lamb
August 27, 1926 - October 5, 2026
Ruth Maxine Lamb, resident of Brookdale Memory Care in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma since April 2023, died on October 5, 2026. She was 100 years old.
Ruth was born on August 27, 1926, to Avery and Rosa (Coop) Kelly, Kellyville, Oklahoma, Creek County. Ruth went to Kellyville, Oklahoma all 12 years and graduated as Salutatorian of her class in 1944. She won honors in typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping. Ruth played softball as pitcher and her sister, Iva, played catcher. They won the conference one year.
Ruth worked for Sinclair Oil Company in Tulsa for three years after graduating from high school, then a year for Moorlane Oil Company. There she met Jim, her husband, who was in veteran's training school to be a dental technician, making dental appliances. They married in July 5, 1946 after six months of dating.
They enjoyed life together, working and traveling in their motorhome seeing beautiful America. Jim was a World War II disabled veteran but that did not keep them from traveling and living a joyful Christian life. They attended First Church of God in Pryor and when living near Salina they attended Lakeview Baptist Church where Bob Belew was pastor.
Survivors are son Dr. Ronald and Pam Lamb, Broken Arrow and daughter Cindy and John Weaver of Pryor; sister-in-law Bobbye Kelly, Springdale, Arkansas and a very special niece who was a regular visitor, Shelly and Steve Gahagans, Fayetteville, Arkansas. Seven grandchildren, four step-grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She loved her grandchildren and was always ready to visit or help with their needs. They all visited and helped her on a regular basis.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Jim on January 26, 2016; two sisters Doris and brother-in-law Henry Ogden of Gladewater, Texas, Iva and brother-in-law Harvey Russell of Shawnee, Oklahoma; two brothers Tracy and sister-in-law Claudia Kelly; and George A. Kelly of Springdale, Arkansas; also, a baby sister Betty Lou.
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