Service: Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 2:00 PM at First Community Church, Hebron
No Viewing - No Visitation
Burial: Rose Hill Cemetery, Hebron
Memorials to: Blue Valley Lutheran Nursing Home, Hebron or the donor's choice.
Ruth LaVaughn Coady, was born on April 25, 1915, near
Eagleville
,
Missouri
, to Joseph S. Clawson and Hallie Dalsey Hook. She died on Sunday, June 26, 2011, at Blue Valley Lutheran Nursing Home in
Hebron
,
Nebraska
, at the age of 96 years. Ruth was baptized on February 14, 1943, at the Presbyterian Church. She was also baptized in the Christian Church on October 28, 1948. Both baptisms took place in
Stamford
, Harlan County, Nebraska. After living in
Missouri
, Ruth and her parents moved to
Cleo
Springs
,
Oklahoma
and then to
Beaver City
,
Nebraska
where Ruth attended public schools. She began working as a waitress at the age of 15, which helped her family survive through the "Dirty 30's". Ruth married William Orville Coady on May 16, 1936 in
Norton
,
Kansas
. They lived in
Stamford
,
Nebraska
for the next 36 years before they came to
Hebron
in retirement. Preceding her in death are her parents, husband, and siblings: Dean, Sena, Dolan, Beulah, Louise and Wilbur. Survivors are daughters, Tillie deFreese and Gloria Baker and husband, Rick, and son, Orville L. (Bill) Coady and wife, Connie; 8 grandchildren: Michele Marie Brettmann, William Eric Coady, Nathaniel Ray Coady, Jonathan Orville Coady, Matthew Jason deFreese, Jeremy Jason Baker, Natalie Jean Baker and Aaron Coady deFreese; 12 great-grandchildren, other relatives and friends.
