Ruby Pauline Harris was born August 12, 1920, in Glen, Oklahoma, to James Monroe and Ida Miller Watson. Ruby passed from this life Sunday, September 18, 2005, at her home in Waurika at the age of eighty-five. She and Robert D. Harris were married November 8, 1936, in Milo, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death. Ruby was a homemaker and an active member of the First Christian Church of Waurika.

Survivors include: one son - Kenneth Harris; four daughters - Brenda Johnson, Dotty Switzer, Neta Sue Richardson, and Ida Kerkow; one sister - Minnie Algeo; eight grandsons; several great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers, four sisters, one granddaughter, and two grandsons.

Funeral services for Mrs. Harris were at 1:00 PM, Tuesday, September 20, 2005, at the First Christian Church in Waurika with Curtis Plant officiating. Burial was in the Pooleville Cemetery under the direction of Dudley Funeral Home of Waurika. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Christian Church.