Ruth M. Woodson

December 13, 1926 - September 27, 2014

Graveside services for Ruth M. Woodson will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 30, 2014, at the Alva Municipal Cemetery. Interment is under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva. Ruth M. Woodson, daughter of the late Ernest Samuel and Mollie Lee (Wood) Paul, was born December 13, 1926, in Elkhart, Kansas, and passed away September 27, 2014, in Oklahoma City, at the age of 87 years, 9 months, and 14 days. Ruth attended school in Elkhart, Kansas. On December 16, 1943, she was united in marriage to LeMoyne Dale “Woody” Woodson in Cherokee, Oklahoma. The first five years of their marriage, Woody worked as a seismograph operator for Texas Oil Company which required a lot of traveling. After that time they moved to Alva where he entered private business. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Woody; one son, Jeff; and two brothers, Lee Paul and Jess Paul. Ruth is survived by her son, Paul Woodson and wife, Connie, of Oklahoma City; four grandchildren, Tamara Leon and husband, Tony, of Enid; Shana Covalt and husband, Geoff, of Oklahoma City, Ashley Danner and husband, Jeff, of Oklahoma City, and Angela Davis and husband, Nathan, of Norman; thirteen great grandchildren, Morgan, Tanner, and Carson Leon, Reagan, Cooper and Cade Covalt, Alex, Brayden, Grayson, and Jackson Danner; and Remington, Gallagher, and Addilynne Davis; her twin sister, Naomi Turner of Elkhart, Kansas; other relatives and friends. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to the St. Jude Children’s Hospital.