SCARBROUGH, WILLIAM "BILL" - Callahan County, Texas | WILLIAM "BILL" SCARBROUGH - Texas Gravestone Photos

William "Bill" SCARBROUGH

Eula Cemetery
Callahan County,
Texas

William
December 16, 1917 - November 10, 1991

Ruth
March 5, 1921 - January 7, 2011

Obit
Ruth Brock Scarbrough, 89, of Eula, died Friday at an Abilene care center. Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, January 9, 2010, at the Eula United Methodist Church with Rev. Bob Karlin officiating. Burial will follow in the Eula Cemetery. Visitation will be held Saturday evening from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Bailey-Howard Funeral Home.
Ruth was born March 5, 1921, in Niota, Tennessee, to Ralph and Edith (McCamy) Brock. They moved from Tennessee to Eula in 1926. She was a 1938 graduate of Eula High School and graduated from Hendrick Hospital Nursing School in 1943. She received her bachelor's degree in 1963 and her Master's degree in 1968, both from Hardin-Simmons University. Ruth married Bill Scarbrough on June 25, 1942, in Abilene. She worked as a registered nurse with Hendrick Medical Center for 35 years, retiring in 1984 as Director of the Mary Meek School of Nursing. Ruth was a member of the Eula United Methodist Church for 81 years, the Eula Belles Red Hat Society, the Eula Ladies Club and was a Charter Member of First Abilene Federal Credit Union.
Ruth, known as Grandma to her grandchildren and Granny to her great-grandchildren, loved to work in her garden. She loved to crochet, quilt, and paint along with collecting coins and stamps. She loved her cows, giving each one a special name. She loved to get on her tractor and mow around her farm, but in her later years when it became dangerous for her to do so, the key to the tractor had to be hidden to keep her off of it. Most of all she loved her family - her children, her brother, her sisters, and especially her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandson.
Ruth is survived by one daughter, Nancy Moore of Abilene; one son, Don Scarbrough and wife Debbie of Garland; one brother, Billy Brock and wife Willadean of Sweetwater; two sisters, Helen Slough of Abilene and Rosa Lee McClure and husband David of Tuscola; five grandchildren, Ashley Scarbrough, Brian Scarbrough, Jacob Scarbrough, Jon Scarbrough, and Kevin Moore; eight great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ralph and Edith, and her husband Bill in 1991.

Photo courtesy of
John and Diana Deason Wasson

Contributed on 8/18/18

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Submitted: 8/18/18 • Approved: 8/20/18 • Last Updated: 8/23/18 • R170982-G170982-S3

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