Obituary of Ruth Hemby

Services for Ruth Hemby, 85, Troup, are scheduled for 3:00 pm, Wednesday, February 8, at the Cottle Funeral Home Chapel, Troup with the Reverend Darryle W. Dunks officiating. Burial will be in the Mixon Cemetery. Mrs. Hemby died Monday, February 6, 2006 in a Tyler hospice. She was born April 26, 1920 in the Mixon community to the late Harland E. and Ira D. Musick Burns. She was a lifetime resident of the Troup area and had owned and operated a grocery business in Troup for 20 years. She had been a longtime member of the First Baptist Church, Troup, and was currently a member of Green Acres Baptist Church, Tyler. Mrs. Hemby was preceded in death by two husbands, William Bryant Palmer and W. O. ÔBillÕ Hemby. Survivors include a daughter, Glenna Swinford, Tyler; a brother, Leonard Burns, Troup; and two grandchildren, Bill Martin, Tyler, and Glennece Beckett, Lake Jackson. Pallbearers will be Larry Swinford, Gene Burns, Terry Swinford, Stewart Swinford, Bill Mowery, and Wesley Swinford.