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April 25, 1988
Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Creek County, Oklahoma

DOWNEY

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Mrs. Clyde (Ruth J.) Downey, 69, of Tulsa, died Saturday in San Antonio, Texas of an apparent heart attack while visiting her daughter.

Services will be 10:30 am Wednesday in Owen Funeral Chapel with the Rev. J. Harold Bryan officiating.

Burial will follow at 2:30 pm in the Maple Grove Cemetery, Seminole, Okla.

Casket bearers will be Dan Taylor, Dr. Ben Hazlett, Bill Barnes, Bill Taylor and Aaron Whitworth.

She was born March 19, 1919, in Glenwood Springs, Colo., and married Clyde Downey on Dec 13, 1952, in Seminole. The Downey’s moved to Sapulpa in 1969 from Ardmore, Okla.

Mrs. Downey was a retired teacher from the Washington Elementary School in Sapulpa and a member of the Oklahoma Education Association.

She also was a member of the National Education Association and the First Baptist Church of Sapulpa.

Survivors include, husband Clyde; son Jim of Rome, Georgia; daughter Helen Taylor of San Antonio; and three grandchildren.