Ruth Lee Wilson

Ruth Lee Wilson, 85, of Haskell County, went to be with our Lord on Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at her home. Funeral services will be at 2:00 p.m. Friday at the Orient Street Church of Christ in Stamford with Wes Horn officiating. Burial will follow at the Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Haskell County. The family will be receiving friends at the Tankersley Funeral Home at 807 S. Columbia, Stamford, Texas on Thursday from 6 until 8 p.m.
Ruth Lee Caffey was born April 26, 1929 in Rule, Texas to Robert Oral and Nina Louise Underwood Caffey. The family moved to Hawley when Ruth was just a baby and she was raised there and attended the Hawley schools. Ruth moved to Abilene and married Jack Withrow on June 11, 1946. He passed away in November 1988. She moved to Stamford in 1996 to be near her daughter. She married Gilbert Wilson in August 1997 and he passed away on February 2, 1999. Ruth was a member of the Orient Street Church of Christ in Stamford, a member of the Stamford Hospital Ladies Auxiliary and was a homemaker, In her earlier years she was quite the bowler. She never bowled a perfect game but came really close several times. She also worked for the Woodlawn Church of Christ in Abilene for the Bible Call Ministries.
She is survived by 2 daughters, Patsy Armbrust and husband Delbert of Brookeville, Kansas and Peggy Moore and husband Steve of Haskell County, 1 son, Randy Withrow of Austin, 1 sister in law, Helen Withrow of Athens, Texas and 1 brother in law, Al Kittle of Killeen, Texas, 11 grandchildren, Robert Jarvis and wife Gerlyn, Shondra Abker and husband Scott, Melissa Chabek and husband Herb, Melinda McCarter and husband Dean, Dustin Armbrust and wife Nikole, Melody Hicks and husband Joe, Benson Jarvis and wife Arla, Misty Stevens, Marcy Greenwood and husband Cody, Jeremy Withrow and wife Brandy, and Joshua Withrow, 37 great grandchildren , 11 great great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, here 2 husbands, 3 sisters, Evelyn White, Joyce Jones, and Wanda Kittle, and 1 brother in law, Bill Withrow.