BOGGS, Ruby May (FULLER)

BOGGS, FULLER, BEVARD

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/10/2015 at 10:59:31

Osceola Sentinel-Tribune
Osceola, Clarke County, Iowa
March, 2002

Obituary ~ Ruby May (Fuller) Boggs
January 21, 1908 ~ March 29, 2003

Ruby May Fuller Boggs, eldest daughter of James Harvey Fuller and Nellie May Bevard Fuller, was born Jan. 21, 1908, near Weldon in Clarke County and died March 29, 2003, at the Crest Haven Care Center in Creston. She was 95.

Ruby attended school in Iowa and Missouri and graduated from LeRoy Consolidated School in 1927. She married Clare Boggs on June 7, 1932, in Princeton, Mo.

Mr. and Mrs. Boggs managed the Davey Jones restaurant in Leon. She was a cook at several places including the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Des Moines. She was a homemaker and enjoyed playing the organ.

Mrs. Boggs accepted Christ at an early age. She was baptized in the First Baptist Church in Brookfield, Mo., later became a member of the Baptist Church of Allerton and then the Christian Union Church in Indianola.

Mrs. Boggs was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1987, two sisters; three brothers and a niece Delores whom she raised.

Nieces and nephews as well as other relatives and friends survive Mrs. Boggs.

Funeral services for Mrs. Boggs were April 1 at Kale Funeral Home in Osceola, Pastor Jim McCutchan of Creston officiating. Organist was Virginia Reynolds and musical selections were "Softly and Tenderly" and "His Eye Is On the Sparrow."

Interment was in Maple Hill Cemetery at Osceola.

Kale Funeral Homes of Osceola and Truro was in charge of arrangements.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2015