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Elmwood Cemetery

Woodward, Woodward County, Oklahoma

© Billings Funeral Home
Submitted by: Terry Dudley

Ruby Lee Rutledge Trent

April 21, 1921 ~ August 12, 2023

Ruby Lee Rutledge Trent, 102 year old Woodward resident, died Saturday, August 12, 2023 at her home surrounded by her family. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 P.M. Thursday, August 17, 2023 in the Faith United Methodist Church with the Reverend Scott Ware officiating. Interment will be in the Elmwood Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Billings Funeral Home.

Ruby Lee Rutledge was born on April 21, 1921 in Mooreland, Oklahoma, the youngest child of Clifton and Mary Luella Rutledge. She was the last surviving child of 13 children. Home was 13 miles northeast of Woodward and as a small child she walked to a one room school house with her brothers. After she moved on from the little country school, she and her older sister Mary boarded with a family in Woodward and went to school during the week and then came home on weekends. At an early age, she and two friends were baptized in the North Canadian River. She graduated from Woodward High School and went on to marry her sweetheart Robert Barsie Trent, March 17, 1939. They met while he was in the Civilian Conservation Corps working on Boiling Springs State Park.

They were blessed with three children, Tressia, Barsie Eugene and Beverly Sue. She was a stay at home mom until their youngest went to school. At that time she went to work for the Woodward Public Schools supervising various school cafeteria lunch rooms. She enjoyed doing embroidery work, being outside and working in her flowers and plants, watching her grandchildren doing their various activities and especially reading her Bible every night until ill health prevented her from doing so. She enjoyed sitting outside and watching the birds. She was a member of Faith United Methodist Church and attended regularly until Covid and her health began in fail in February of this year.

She and her husband and two children were in the balcony of the Woodward Theatre at the time of the famous 1947 Tornado.

She is survived by three children: Tressia Ruttman, Woodward, Barsie Eugene Trent, Arizona and Beverly Sue Morrison, Amarillo, TX.

Grandchildren: Jody Sue Ruttman, Woodward, Melissa Barclay and husband Jerrod, Perryton, TX, Amy Cathleen Cooper and husband Tom, Tulsa, Jason Beau Barsie Ballin, Minnesota, Laura Trent, Florida.

Great grandchildren: Tarrah Dawn Barclay and Dakota, RaLonda Rachelle Ruttman-Williams and Spencer, Avery Trent Sanchez and Alex, Hayden Trent, Grayson Nicholson and Darin, Britton Russell and Cearah , Snaysha Russell and Deyon.

Great great grandchildren: Carson, Aiden, Emma, Maverick, Jaxton, Harlow, Alaïa and Alani

Preceded in death by: Parents, husband, grandsons Robert Wayne "Robbie" Ruttman and Fred Trent, great grandson Braxton Russell, granddaughter LaRhonda Jo Ruttman, sons-in-law Roger Ruttman and Larry Morrison, and all 12 of her siblings and their spouses.

Memorials may be given to the Faith United Methodist Church with the funeral home accepting the contributions.