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Ruby Means Garner Blew
© Enid News and Eagle
09-26-2006
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

© Glenn

Ruby Lois and William Bryan BLEW

Cherokee Municipal Cemetery


The funeral for Ruby Blew Means Garner, 98, of Cherokee, will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church, Cherokee. The Rev. Jim Edmison will officiate. Burial will be in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery. Arrangements are by Goodwin Funeral Home, Cherokee. Visitation will be 1 to 7 p.m. today, with open casket at the church prior to the service.

She was born Feb. 5, 1908, on a farm near Pond Creek to Thomas Edgar and Ethel Crider Lamb and died Monday, Sept. 18, 2006, at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center.

She moved with her parents to Cheyenne Valley in 1911, returning to the farm near Jefferson in 1918. She graduated from Jefferson High School in 1925. She received her two-year teaching certificate from Phillips University. She attended Oklahoma A&M; from 1928 to 1929, receiving a life teaching certificate. She spent eight summers at Emporia State College in Kansas, earning her B.A. degree in education. She taught at Gore Consolidated, Medford, Caldwell, Kan., and Pratt, Kan.

She married Bryan Blew May 24, 1941. They made their home in Cherokee. He died Oct. 17, 1967.

She finished teaching 1967 at Ingersoll before moving to the Cherokee Public Schools in 1943, where she taught for 23 years. She retired in 1965, after 39 years.

Following her husband’s death, she substituted in the Cherokee and Kiowa, Kan., schools and also worked in the county treasurer’s office. She served on the election board and was bookkeeper for Cherokee Mill. She was Methodist Church financial secretary 29 years and a member and officer of Cherokee Senior Citizen’s Center.

She married James R. Means Nov. 15, 1975. He died Aug. 9, 1997. She married Glenn Garner Sept. 2, 1998, and moved to Golden Oaks Village in 2002. He died Oct. 28, 2004.

Surviving are one sister, Edith King of Blackwell; two stepdaughters, Dot Blew and Marilyn Parker; one stepson, Jimmy Means; and numerous stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.

In addition to three husbands, she was preceded in death by two stepsons, two sisters and a brother.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Cherokee First United Methodist Church.

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