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Ruby Jeraldine Smith Evans
© Enid News and Eagle
08-13-2020
Submitted by: Glenn

© Enid News and Eagle

© Glenn

R. Jeraldine Smith and Marshall E. EVANS

Wakita Cemetery


May 29, 1928 - August 9, 2020

The Memorial Service Celebrating and Honoring the life of Ruby Jeraldine Evans, 92, of Enid, will be held 1:00 P.M. Saturday August 15, 2020, in the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Gene Spillman officiating. Services and complete cremation care are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.

Jeraldine was born May 29, 1928, to Cecil and Ruby Smith in Manchester, Oklahoma, and passed from this life August 9, 2020, in Enid.

She was raised in Manchester, Oklahoma. Her family relocated to California during the dust bowl and returned to Wakita, Oklahoma where she graduated from Wakita High School with the class of 1946. On June 6, 1953, Jeraldine married Marshall "Jim" Evans.

She worked on the family farm for many years, and later began working at the Wakita Nursing Home where she was a dietitian until her retirement. She also worked for the Wakita Ambulance Service as a Licensed EMT. A very civic minded person she was a member of the United Methodist Church of Wakita, Beta Sigma Phi Sorority. She served on the Wakita Town Board and was a former woman of the year in Wakita.

Jeraldine was very talented and spent a lot of her time sewing and crocheting beautiful keepsakes for her friends and family. She loved cooking, watching Hallmark movies and spending time with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her children: Dorothy and Phil Ransom, of Wakita, Jack and Ann Harlow of Woodward, James and Rose Evans of Medicine Lodge, Kansas; Marsha and Greg Kaupke, of Enid; 13 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and thirteen great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her sister, parents, one granddaughter, and one great-grandson.

Memorials may be given in her name to the Wakita Cemetery or the Methodist Church of Wakita with Brown-Cummings Funeral home serving as custodian of the funds.

Condolences and special memories may be shared with the family at www.Brown-Cummings.com

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