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Ruby Marcia Reames



Submitted by Ann Weber
©FAIRVIEW FUNERAL HOME, INC.
FAIRVIEW, MAJOR CO, OK
(permission granted)
www.fairviewfuneralhomeinc.com


Ruby Marcia Reames

Born: January 04, 1922
Died: March 10, 2015

Graveside Services for Ruby Marcia Reames, 93, of Fairview, formerly of Okeene, will be 11:00 a.m., Friday, March 13, 2015 at the Homestead Cemetery. Bruce Ewing will officiate. Arrangements are by the Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.

Viewing will be from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday, March 12 th at the Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.

Ruby Marcia Ratzlaff Reames was born on January 4, 1922, the daughter of Adam and Jacobena Ratzlaff. She was the youngest of 17 children. She left this life on March 10, 2015, at the age of 93, after living a full life.

Ruby attended elementary in Orienta, OK. Attended Fairview High School, where she was Homecoming Queen and had attended Grace University in Newton, Kansas.

Ruby married Robert L. Reames, February 1, 1942, at the Methodist parsonage in Fairview, OK. Bob joined the US Army Air Corp in January 1943 and Ruby traveled to training bases in San Marcos, TX, San Antonio, TX, Chickasha, OK and Coffeyville, KS before Bob left to fight overseas in World War II.

Ruby remained stateside and gave birth to Robert L. Reames, Jr. on August 8, 1944, while her husband was still fighting in the war.

After Bob returned home the Reames family moved to Homestead, OK, and on August 13, 1949, a second child was born, a daughter, Deborah Kay.

Ruby was a member of the Homestead Methodist Church and later the Homestead Bible Church where she taught Sunday School, played piano and sang in the ladies trio.

Bob and Ruby liked to travel in their motorhome all over the U.S. with their friends and family. She loved to cook and bake for all the men that worked on the farm and especially for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was known for her homemade cream puffs, carrot cookies, cheesecake and Dr. Pepper floats. Ruby loved to watch sports on TV, kept an immaculately clean house, read the newspaper daily and played the piano up until she no longer could.

Ruby was preceded in death by her parents, all sixteen of her siblings and her devoted husband Bob.

She will be greatly missed by her two children, Robert L. Reames, Jr. and wife Glynda of Arlington, TX and daughter Deborah K. Williams, and husband Pete Williams, Ada, OK, her grandson, Brook Strader and wife Kody of Homestead, OK and two granddaughters, Susan Urano, and husband Thomas of Austin, TX, and Robin Bond and husband Jed, Wichita, KS. She also leaves two bonus granddaughters Angie Turner and husband Joe, of Owasso, OK, Gina Lowry of Oklahoma City, OK. Grandma Ruby leaves eleven great-grandchildren, Ella, Brant and Evyn Strader, Jack and Lilly Urano, Mason and Emery Bond, Hannah and Mark Turner and Hank and Callahan Lowry.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made through the funeral home to Fairview Fellowship Home

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