Mary Ruth Leake
1903 - 1968 (64 years)
Generation: 1
1. Mary Ruth Leake was born on 6 Sep 1903 in Pisgah, Jackson County, Alabama; died on 28 May 1968 in Shamrock, Wheeler County, Texas; was buried in Shamrock Cemetery, Shamrock, Wheeler County, Texas. Notes:
Mrs. R.W. Shields
Shamrock – Funeral services for Mrs. R.W. (Ruth) Shields, 64, who died Tuesday in Shamrock General Hospital following an illness of one year, are pending with Clay Funeral Home.
Mrs. Shields was born in Pisgah, Ala. She lived in Hedley two years before moving to Shamrock 48 years ago.
The former Mary Ruth Leake, she married Russell William shields in Sayre, Okla., on May 5, 1932. She was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband; four brothers, Howard and Wesley Leake of Shamrock, Hixon of Bakersfield, Calif., and Fletcher of Yucca Valley, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Nina Conway of Bakersfield; and a niece who was reared in her home, Mrs. Marlon Palmer of Bakersfield.
The Amarillo Globe-Times, Amarillo, Texas. Wednesday, May 29, 1968.
Name:
daughter of John Wesley Simmons Leake and Lillie Olena Gibson
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10616197/mary-ruth-shields
Plot: Blk-A, Lot 41 Sp 7Mary married Russell William Shields on 6 May 1932. Russell (son of William Scott Shields and Florence Helen White) was born on 7 Jun 1902 in Noble County, Oklahoma; died in Apr 1979 in Shamrock, Wheeler County, Texas; was buried in Shamrock Cemetery, Shamrock, Wheeler County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]