RUBY LITTLE

ADA-Services for Ruby Mabel Nelson Little, 96, Ada, are 1:00 p.m. Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Dr. Roberto Escamilla will officiate. Burial will follow at Hillside Cemetery in Purcell.

Mrs. Little died Monday, April 20, 2009 at her home. She was born September 28, 1912 at Cloudy, Oklahoma to Samuel Benton and Lillie Etna Pound Nelson. She graduated from McAlester High School and East Central State Teacher's College in Ada.

She married J. W. Little August 22, 1936. He preceded her in death December 29, 1996. Mrs. Little was an elementary school teacher for 35 years, a member of the First United Methodist Church in Ada and a Pioneer Teacher of Oklahoma. She moved to Ada four years ago from Norman.

Survivors include two daughters, LaVelle Walker and husband George E., Ada, and LaVonne Solomon, Irving, TX; grandchildren, Penni Doyle, Reneé Harper, Clark Solomon, and Traci Solomon Guidry; four great grandchildren, Meaghan and Ruby Doyle and Jim and Joe Harper; a sister, Betty Rennke, Ada; and a brother, William Ervin Nelson, Davis.

She was preceded in death by a sisters, Irene Green and Mozelle Goff; and brothers, L. B. Nelson, James Nelson and Kenneth Nelson.

Bearers will be her nephews, Bruce Rennke, David Rennke, Ron Rennke, and Jeffrey Nelson.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada