Ruth Ann Davis, 75, of Gainesville, Texas, and formerly of Olney died Friday, January 22, 2010, at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Denton, Texas, after a long illness.   Burial in Witt-Ratliff Cemetery.

Mrs. Davis was born October 19, 1934, in Olney, the daughter of Truly Telford and Mary Magdaline White Struble. She married Elmer Wayne Davis on May 12, 1960, in Gainesville.

She worked as a secretary at Linda Jo Shoe Company and later at Valenite, where she retired in 1999. She was an avid quilter and a member of the Common Threads Quilt Guild and also a member of the Downard Fairplains Quilters. She was a member of the Downard Fairplains Community as well.

Mrs. Davis is survived by her brother and sister-in-law, Bob and Clete Struble, of Olney; sister, Norma Jean Butts, of Nebraska; sisters-in-law, Avinelle Turner, of Clovis, New Mexico, Yvonne Struble, of Ohio, and Kaye Davis, of Dallas; son and daughter-in-law, Bill and Cathy Leonard, of Gainesville, Dale and Rebecca Leonard, of Sioux City, Iowa; daughter and son-in-law, David and Melanie Davis, of Gainesville, Debra and Shawn Phelps, of Gainesville; and grandchildren, Jeremy Leonard, Britton Hacker, Josh Davis, Kayla Davis, Jake Wilson, Mariska Phelps and Kathy Mattaliano.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer Wayne Davis, brother, Kenneth Struble and sister, Vivian Robinson.

Published in Olney Daily Mail (IL)