Ruby Bell BARKER

1920 - 2010  (90 years)

• Name	Ruby Bell BARKER  [1]
  Born	30 Aug 1920	Lubbock, Lubbock, TX, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	22 Dec 2010  [3]
  Buried	Memorial Park Cemetery, Amarillo, Potter, TX, USA   [3]
  Person ID	I3870	Boyd
  Last Modified	28 Dec 2010

  
  

  Father	BARKER
  Family ID	F4329	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	James Jarrell “Dub” BOYD,   b. 1 Nov 1923, Eureka, Navarro, TX, USA ,   d. 3 Sep 2014, Amarillo, Potter, TX, USA  (Age 90 years)
  Married	12 Jun 1943	Amarillo, Potter, TX, USA   [2]
  Children	1. Steven Jarrell BOYD,   b. 15 Feb 1955, Amarillo, Potter, TX, USA ,   d. 1 Jun 2018  (Age 63 years) + 2. Richard Wallis BOYD
  Last Modified	3 Jul 2009
  Family ID	F1796	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 30 Aug 1920 - Lubbock, Lubbock, TX, USA Married - 12 Jun 1943 - Amarillo, Potter, TX, USA Buried - - Memorial Park Cemetery, Amarillo, Potter, TX, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

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• Notes

  Ruby B. Boyd of Amarillo died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Trinity Methodist Church with Dr. Doug Mills officiating. Graveside services will be private. Arrangements are by Memorial Park Funeral Home, 6969 E. Interstate 40. Ruby was born Aug. 30, 1930, in Lubbock. She married James "Dub" Boyd on June 12, 1943, in Amarillo. Ruby loved to garden and work outside. She was Dub's bookkeeper for their family business as well as for their personal life for more than 60 years. She also loved doing crossword puzzles. She was a loving wife, mother, sister and grandmother who will be missed by all she knew. Survivors include her husband, James "Dub" Boyd; two sons, Steven Boyd and Richard Boyd and wife Linda, all of Amarillo; three brothers, Jimmy Barker, Melvin Barker and Virgil Barker; and two grandchildren, Shauna Greeson and Breonna Boyd. Leave online condolences at www.memorialparkamarillo.com. Amarillo Globe-News, Dec. 26, 2010 (NOTE: This obituary erroneously gives her birth year as 1930. It should be 1920. [3]

  
  

• Sources

  [S130] Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997, (Ancestry.com), Birth record of Richard Wallis Boyd. [S347] Boyd Family27June2009. [S658] Obituary of Ruby B. Boyd, (Amarillo Globe-News (Amarillo, TX) 26 December 2010).