In Loving Memory Of
Ruby Helen Sorrels
McCarty
Ruby Helen Sorrels McCarty, of Pauls Valley, was born
on October 21, 1926 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma to Lesley S. and Carrie
Belle (Dungan) Sorrels.
She passed away November 24, 2009 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma at the age
of 83 years.
She was married to J. I. McCarty in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma on January
19, 1946. They were blessed with three children: Linda Faye, Ruth Helen
and Doyle J. McCarty. Later they were blessed with seven grandchildren,
eleven great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
She retired from the Pauls Valley State School, now Southern Oklahoma
Resource Center, where she was a Cook and took care of the Laundry for
many years. Some of her activities that she loved included crocheting,
music to dance and listen to as well as cooking and being a care giver
to members of her family and friends. The Pauls Valley area has been her
home all of her life.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Les and Carrie Sorrels; her
husband, J.I. McCarty; two sisters, Irene O’Neal and Hazel Griffin; two
brothers, Robert Sorrels and Dean Sorrels.
Surviving family include her children, Linda McCarty Wilkerson of
Oklahoma City; Ruth McCarty Huckabaa and her husband, Bill and Doyle J.
McCarty and his wife, Donna, all of Wynnewood; seven grandchildren and
their families, Raelyn, Shawn and Zoe Hawkins; Candie and Kelsey McKee,
Matthew, Dee Dee, Cooper and Bren Huckabaa; Michael, Peggy and Bella
Huckabaa; Kristi, Boyde, Kirsten and Luke Scott; Kerri, Brad, Kyle,
Macie and Austyn Buckaloo; Jennifer, Jim, Blake and Shelby Fisher; three
sisters, Lucy Johnson, Mary Wallace and Faye Allensworth and two
brothers, Darrol Sorrels and Ray Sorrels.
Visitation was Wednesday until 7 PM and will be Friday from 9 AM until
1:30 PM. It was requested that Thanksgiving Day be a time for families
to spend time together.
Memorials may be sent to Alzheimer research at the Oklahoma Medical
Research Foundation (OMRF) at 825 N. E. 13th Street in Oklahoma City,
OK. 73104-9930. Envelopes are available at the Stufflebean-Coffey
Funeral Home in Pauls Valley.
Pallbearers will be Matthew Huckabaa, Michael Huckabaa, Kyle Buckaloo,
Boyde Scott, Brad Buckaloo, Keith O'Neal, and Mason Scott.
Funeral services will be held Friday, November 27, 2009 at 2:00 pm at
the Stufflebean Chapel of Remembrance officiated by Rev. Jim Dehart.
Interment will be at the Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Professional services and
interment are under the direction of Stufflebean-Coffey Funeral Home.
