Ruby Viola Burdine ¹

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HEREFORD - Ruby Ellis, 95, died Friday, March 5, 2010.

Celebration of life services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Parkside Chapel Funeral Home with the Rev. Joe Shultz officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery.

Ruby was born Jan. 18, 1915, in Rochester to C.B. and Ella Twiner Burdine. She married Dick Ellis on Sept. 8, 1934, in Lamesa. Ruby's favorite pastime was working in her flower garden and taking care of her house plants.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dick Ellis; and two brothers, Irvin Burdine and Lester Burdine.

Survivors include a brother, Wendell Burdine and wife Wanda of Hereford; a sister, Inavey Carlisle of Lubbock; three nieces, Rene Pennington and husband Douglas of Fredericksburg, Brenda Cagle and husband Sam and Janet Stone and husband Mike, all of Amarillo; and a nephew, Brian Burdine of New York.

The family suggests memorials be to Hereford Senior Citizens, 426 Ranger St., Hereford, TX. 79045.

Amarillo Globe-News, March 7, 2010

Ruby married Aaron Vernon Ellis, son of Cannie Caswell Ellis and Frances Miles, on 8 Sep 1934 in Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas. (Aaron Vernon Ellis was born on 3 May 1913 in Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas,³ died on 11 Oct 2008 in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas ³ and was buried in West Park Cemetery, Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas ⁴.)