Buck, Ruth Jones

Memorial services for Ruth Jones Buck, 94, of Longview, 
will be 11 a.m. Monday, February 5, 2007, at First 
United Methodist Church Chapel with the Rev. David 
Lindwall officiating. Mrs. Buck died Friday evening at 
a local nursing facility. Ruth was born January 9, 1913, 
in Long Branch, Texas, to Lee and Jewel Jones. She 
received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Texas 
State Women's College and the University of Texas. Ruth 
was a career educator, serving as a home demonstration 
agent in Victoria and a home economics professor at Penn 
State University for more than 25 years. She was preceded 
in death by her husband, Raymond F. Buck. Ruth is survived 
by a brother, Cassity Jones, and a sister, Mildred Jones 
Norris, both of Longview; nieces and nephews, Tommie Lynn 
Jones Carley of St Louis, Jan Jones Forester of Longview, 
John L. Jones of Henderson, Jennifer Jones Anderson of 
Nacogdoches, Jim Jones of Longview, Melinda Jones Lowrey 
of Fort Smith, Tina Jones Vardeman of Nacogdoches and 
Jerry Jones of Tyler; and 25 great-nieces and great-nephews. 
The family requests in lieu of flowers, memorials be sent 
to First United Methodist Church of Longview. A memorial 
guestbook may be signed at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 2/4/2007.