Whitter, Ruth Hazel Blackstone GILMER -- Services for Ruth Hazel Blackstone Whitter, 92, of the Shady Grove Community, will be 3 p.m. Thursday, October 26, 2006, at Croley Funeral Home Chapel of Gilmer, with Perry Cowen officiating. Burial will follow in Shady Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Whitter died October 24, 2006, in Gilmer. Born September 2, 1914, in Upshur County, she was a seamstress for Uptown Shop in Gladewater and member of Shady Grove Church of Christ. Survivors include her daughter, Shirley Whitter Edmonson. Published in the Longview News-Journal on 10/25/2006.