Ruth Craig Grooms
(June 19,
1918 – April 4, 2011)
Mrs. Ruth Craig Grooms,
92, died Monday, April 4, 2011, at Haws Memorial Rehab & Nursing Facility
in Fulton, KY.
Mrs. Grooms was a member
of Parkway Church of Christ, Fulton,
KY, a resident of Haws Nursing
Home, and was a homemaker. She had also
been the store manager of the former Montgomery Ward stores in Fulton,
KY and Union City,
TN; a former Avon and Stanley Home Products
representative; former secretary for Parkway Church of Christ; and attended Draughn’s
Business College.
She had lived in this area most of her life.
She is survived by 3 daughters,
Patsy (Bob) Craven of Fulton, KY, Pam (Richard) Jackson of Pilot Oak, KY, and
Tammy Curtis of Fulton, KY; a son, Lowell (Barbara) Grooms of South
Fulton, TN; 12 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 1 great great-grandchild;
and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, J.L. “Bill” Grooms; her parents, Ida Ethel (Marshall) and Wiley
Black Craig; a son, Billy Grooms; a daughter, Ginger Gwen Grooms; 2
sons-in-law, Scott Curtis and Garry Moore; 6 brothers and 6 sisters; and a
great-grandson, Caleb Turner.
Funeral services will be
held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 7, 2011, at Hornbeak Funeral Chapel in Fulton, with Brother
Cecil May III presiding. Burial will be
at Greenlea Cemetery. Visitation will be held Wednesday, April 6,
2011, from 5-9 p.m., and Thursday, April 7, 2011, from 8 a.m. until the funeral
hour.
Memorials should be made
to: Parkway Church of Christ, P.O. Box 1642, Fulton,
KY 42041;
Kosair Children’s Hospital, 231 E. Chestnut St., Louisville, KY 40202; and New
Pathways for Children, P.O. Box 10, Melber, KY 42069.
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