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Services for Anna Ruth Ingram McMillin, 94, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004, at Paul Thomas Funeral Home in Miami with the Rev. Father Ronald Peak officiating. Interment will follow at Welch Cemetery, Welch.
Born in Parker, Kan., on Nov. 4, 1909, to Kellie and Ida Goad Ingram, Anna Ruth was the eldest of nine children who grew up on a farm near Welch, Okla. She died Jan. 26, 2004, in Ardmore.
She attended West Anthricity grade school northwest of Welch and graduated from Welch High School. She attended Oklahoma A&M College at Stillwater and taught school in northeastern Oklahoma at Pleasant Valley, the Valley and Golden Rod rural schools, and the orphanage in Pryor for seven years. In 1943 she moved to Oklahoma City and began working at Tinker Air Force Base. Upon her retirement from there in 1971, she moved to Ardmore. She was a member of First United Methodist.
Anna Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Bruce, Carl and Clyde Ingram; and two sisters, Delma Armstrong, and Ruby Metzen.
She is survived by a son and his wife, Lovell and Ann McMillin, Ardmore; three grandchildren and spouses, Kellie Ann and Robert Merrick, The Woodlands, Texas, Michael Shawn and Mary McMillin, Oklahoma City, and Theodore Marc and Amy McMillin, Plano, Texas; eight great-grandchildren; three sisters and spouses, Pearl Miller, Albuquerque, N.M., Pauline and Joe Owens and Wanda and Paul Thomas, Joplin, Mo.; a brother-in-law, Bill Metzen, Welch; and sister-in-law, Alice May Ingram, Joplin; several nieces and nephews.
Bearers will be nephews, Wendall Metzen, Robert Ingram, John Ingram, George Ingram, Clyde Ingram Jr., Gene Bell and Robert Wilkie.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers memorials can be made to Adult Day Services of Southern Oklahoma in Ardmore, or a favorite charity.
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