Ruth Myra Gober Thomas Obituary (1934

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Myra Gober Thomas, age 82, will be held on Saturday, July 23, 2016, at 1:00 PM at Center United Methodist Church at 6022 Emerson Rd., Gadsden, Tennessee 38337. Interment will follow immediately afterward in the church cemetery with Ronk Funeral Home in charge. She was born on May 07, 1934, to the late Victor Hugo Gober and Mattie Naomi Owen Gober in Delmar, Alabama. Mrs. Thomas passed away on July 17, 2016, at the Hospice Cottingham in Seneca, SC. She came to Oconee County, SC in November 2008, to live near her son and daughter in law, David and Jean Thomas of West Union, SC. She has one other child, a daughter, Marcina Thomas Holleman, who lives in Deep Run, NC with her husband Vick; sister, Dorothy Gober Cunningham; seven grandchildren. She will be buried beside her husband of 53 years, Harrell Loyd Thomas. Her spirit is in the hands of our Lord Jesus Christ; whom she accepted as a young child to be her Savior and God. When she was sixteen years old she and her family moved to Adamsville, Tennessee where she finished high school. She obtained a BS in teaching at the University of Knoxville and a MS at the University of Tennessee at Martin. She enjoyed teaching in Crockett County Public Schools for twenty-seven years mostly in Home Economics. She took many of her students to compete in FHA competitions and taught them how to be successful at home and in life. She was a past member of several groups such as Toastmasters, writers clubs, and several poetry groups. She wrote many devotionals and poems with several published in "Voices International", "Pathways to God", "Tennessee Voices", etc. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the church cemetery fund.