The Daily Oklahoman 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 
July 27, 2007


Ruby Coleman Ritter, 80, of Midwest City, died Wednesday, July 25, 2007. Ruby was retired from Oklahoma State Dept of Agriculture and a member of Eastwood Baptist Church in MWC.

Ruby was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil; brothers, Melvin, Emmett, Tom, and Robert Holland; half brother, William Holland; and sister, Odessa Harris.

Survivors include her brother, Jim Holland; sisters, Ida Basden, Faye Lytle, and Juanita Benefield; five children, Marvin Coleman & wife Sandra of Choctaw, OK, Gerald Coleman & wife Jan of MWC, OK, Kenneth Coleman & Alicia Bennett of MWC, OK, Pamela Rudek & husband Danny Keel of San Leon, TX, Roy Coleman & wife Shelly of Carrollton, TX; nine grandchildren & spouses, Sandra Allen, Dana Mackey, Jeremy Coleman, Joshua Coleman, Kenneth M. Coleman, Amy Booze, Johnathan Coleman, David Rudek, Jr. and Elizabeth Ruby Coleman; also ten great-grandchildren, Ashley Stewart, A.J. & Raelee Mackey, Jacob, Anslee, Benjamin & Eli Coleman, Sage Chavera, Sedona Coleman, Avery Rudek, and soon to arrive, Baby Coleman.

Funeral services, directed by Bill Eisenhour NE Funeral Home, will be held Saturday, July 28, 2007 at 10:00 am at Eastwood Baptist Church, 12251 E. Reno, MWC, OK. Pastor Roy Brown officiating. Graveside service to follow at 3:00 pm at Center Hill Cemetery, Kenefic, OK, with John Basden officiating.



Cecil E. Ritter publisher of the Oklahoma Statehouse Reporter and State Directory has published a state government history. It's call Oklahoma's Historical Edition Volume III. In addition to a rundown on the various Oklahoma land openings, the book relates many facets of government as they developed through the years, from territorial days until now. Ritter's book sold for $10




 

 

 

photo courtesy Marti Graham, January 2009
 


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