Curtis Scruggs, 97, of Olton, died Wednesday, October 5, 2016, at Runningwater Draw Care Center in Olton.
Services will be held at 2:00P.M., Saturday, October 8, 2016, at Main Street Church of Christ in Olton with Brad Wangerin officiating. Interment will follow at Olton Cemetery under the direction of Ramage Funeral Directors. The family will receive friends at Ramage Funeral Directors in Olton from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M., Friday, October 7, 2016.
Curtis was born December 23, 1918, at home during a blizzard in the small panhandle town of Goldston, Texas, to Richard and Ethel Thomas. The family later moved to Clarendon, Texas, where Curtis attended school. She met and married J.C. Scruggs of Shamrock, Texas, in 1938, and the two would eventually follow Curtis’ parents to Olton in 1939. Curtis would later recall her first trip to Olton, where the stretch of road from Plainview was dirt and potholed and took all day to travel in a rainstorm.
Curtis and J.C. would go on to raise their three children – Dick, Deana, and Jan- in Olton. Curtis worked for many local businesses throughout her career, including 26 years at Olton State Bank which she recalled fondly. In 1989, at the age of 70, she would become a mother again to her young grandchildren, Ashley and Douglas, after the loss of their parents. With Ashley and Douglas, she performed the role of both mother and father, raising two small children, attending sporting events and school functions, hosting birthday parties, and providing unconditional love. This alone is enough to make someone’s life remarkable, but such an act was not remarkable in Curtis’ life. She practiced kindness each and every day through simple acts such as listening without hurry, taking care of others, and offering words of strength and caring. She survived the dust bowl years, the Great Depression, her husband’s WWII deployment, the deaths of her siblings and her children, but one would never know it to speak to her. She handled all of life’s adversities with unmatched grace and an unwavering faith in God. To know her was to love her. On one of her last days, Curtis was asked what she was thinking. She responded: “kindness and caring.” And that sums her up. Her sweetness, sense of humor, and joy of life will be greatly missed.
Curtis loved her family, her Main Street Church of Christ family, and all her many friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her siblings R.H., Gladys, Jack, Dorothy and Guy, and her children Richard, Deana, and Janet.
Those left to cherish her memory include her granddaughter Ashley Turbeville and husband Scott of Denver, Colorado, along with their daughter and Curtis’ namesake, Emma, her grandson Douglas Anderson of Olton, and her numerous other nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be made to Main Street Church of Christ in Olton or Runningwater Draw Care Center P.O. Box 409 Olton, TX 79064.
Services will be held at 2:00P.M., Saturday, October 8, 2016, at Main Street Church of Christ in Olton with Brad Wangerin officiating. Interment will follow at Olton Cemetery under the direction of Ramage Funeral Directors. The family will receive friends at Ramage Funeral Directors in Olton from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M., Friday, October 7, 2016.
Curtis was born December 23, 1918, at home during a blizzard in the small panhandle town of Goldston, Texas, to Richard and Ethel Thomas. The family later moved to Clarendon, Texas, where Curtis attended school. She met and married J.C. Scruggs of Shamrock, Texas, in 1938, and the two would eventually follow Curtis’ parents to Olton in 1939. Curtis would later recall her first trip to Olton, where the stretch of road from Plainview was dirt and potholed and took all day to travel in a rainstorm.
Curtis and J.C. would go on to raise their three children – Dick, Deana, and Jan- in Olton. Curtis worked for many local businesses throughout her career, including 26 years at Olton State Bank which she recalled fondly. In 1989, at the age of 70, she would become a mother again to her young grandchildren, Ashley and Douglas, after the loss of their parents. With Ashley and Douglas, she performed the role of both mother and father, raising two small children, attending sporting events and school functions, hosting birthday parties, and providing unconditional love. This alone is enough to make someone’s life remarkable, but such an act was not remarkable in Curtis’ life. She practiced kindness each and every day through simple acts such as listening without hurry, taking care of others, and offering words of strength and caring. She survived the dust bowl years, the Great Depression, her husband’s WWII deployment, the deaths of her siblings and her children, but one would never know it to speak to her. She handled all of life’s adversities with unmatched grace and an unwavering faith in God. To know her was to love her. On one of her last days, Curtis was asked what she was thinking. She responded: “kindness and caring.” And that sums her up. Her sweetness, sense of humor, and joy of life will be greatly missed.
Curtis loved her family, her Main Street Church of Christ family, and all her many friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her siblings R.H., Gladys, Jack, Dorothy and Guy, and her children Richard, Deana, and Janet.
Those left to cherish her memory include her granddaughter Ashley Turbeville and husband Scott of Denver, Colorado, along with their daughter and Curtis’ namesake, Emma, her grandson Douglas Anderson of Olton, and her numerous other nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be made to Main Street Church of Christ in Olton or Runningwater Draw Care Center P.O. Box 409 Olton, TX 79064.
Curtis Scruggs, 97, of Olton, died Wednesday, October 5, 2016, at Runningwater Draw Care Center in Olton.
Services will be held at 2:00P.M., Saturday, October 8, 2016, at Main Street Church of Christ in Olton with Brad Wangerin officiating. Interment will follow at Olton Cemetery under the direction of Ramage Funeral Directors. The family will receive friends at Ramage Funeral Directors in Olton from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M., Friday, October 7, 2016.
Curtis was born December 23, 1918, at home during a blizzard in the small panhandle town of Goldston, Texas, to Richard and Ethel Thomas. The family later moved to Clarendon, Texas, where Curtis attended school. She met and married J.C. Scruggs of Shamrock, Texas, in 1938, and the two would eventually follow Curtis’ parents to Olton in 1939. Curtis would later recall her first trip to Olton, where the stretch of road from Plainview was dirt and potholed and took all day to travel in a rainstorm.
Curtis and J.C. would go on to raise their three children – Dick, Deana, and Jan- in Olton. Curtis worked for many local businesses throughout her career, including 26 years at Olton State Bank which she recalled fondly. In 1989, at the age of 70, she would become a mother again to her young grandchildren, Ashley and Douglas, after the loss of their parents. With Ashley and Douglas, she performed the role of both mother and father, raising two small children, attending sporting events and school functions, hosting birthday parties, and providing unconditional love. This alone is enough to make someone’s life remarkable, but such an act was not remarkable in Curtis’ life. She practiced kindness each and every day through simple acts such as listening without hurry, taking care of others, and offering words of strength and caring. She survived the dust bowl years, the Great Depression, her husband’s WWII deployment, the deaths of her siblings and her children, but one would never know it to speak to her. She handled all of life’s adversities with unmatched grace and an unwavering faith in God. To know her was to love her. On one of her last days, Curtis was asked what she was thinking. She responded: “kindness and caring.” And that sums her up. Her sweetness, sense of humor, and joy of life will be greatly missed.
Curtis loved her family, her Main Street Church of Christ family, and all her many friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her siblings R.H., Gladys, Jack, Dorothy and Guy, and her children Richard, Deana, and Janet.
Those left to cherish her memory include her granddaughter Ashley Turbeville and husband Scott of Denver, Colorado, along with their daughter and Curtis’ namesake, Emma, her grandson Douglas Anderson of Olton, and her numerous other nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be made to Main Street Church of Christ in Olton or Runningwater Draw Care Center P.O. Box 409 Olton, TX 79064.
Services will be held at 2:00P.M., Saturday, October 8, 2016, at Main Street Church of Christ in Olton with Brad Wangerin officiating. Interment will follow at Olton Cemetery under the direction of Ramage Funeral Directors. The family will receive friends at Ramage Funeral Directors in Olton from 4:00 to 6:00 P.M., Friday, October 7, 2016.
Curtis was born December 23, 1918, at home during a blizzard in the small panhandle town of Goldston, Texas, to Richard and Ethel Thomas. The family later moved to Clarendon, Texas, where Curtis attended school. She met and married J.C. Scruggs of Shamrock, Texas, in 1938, and the two would eventually follow Curtis’ parents to Olton in 1939. Curtis would later recall her first trip to Olton, where the stretch of road from Plainview was dirt and potholed and took all day to travel in a rainstorm.
Curtis and J.C. would go on to raise their three children – Dick, Deana, and Jan- in Olton. Curtis worked for many local businesses throughout her career, including 26 years at Olton State Bank which she recalled fondly. In 1989, at the age of 70, she would become a mother again to her young grandchildren, Ashley and Douglas, after the loss of their parents. With Ashley and Douglas, she performed the role of both mother and father, raising two small children, attending sporting events and school functions, hosting birthday parties, and providing unconditional love. This alone is enough to make someone’s life remarkable, but such an act was not remarkable in Curtis’ life. She practiced kindness each and every day through simple acts such as listening without hurry, taking care of others, and offering words of strength and caring. She survived the dust bowl years, the Great Depression, her husband’s WWII deployment, the deaths of her siblings and her children, but one would never know it to speak to her. She handled all of life’s adversities with unmatched grace and an unwavering faith in God. To know her was to love her. On one of her last days, Curtis was asked what she was thinking. She responded: “kindness and caring.” And that sums her up. Her sweetness, sense of humor, and joy of life will be greatly missed.
Curtis loved her family, her Main Street Church of Christ family, and all her many friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her siblings R.H., Gladys, Jack, Dorothy and Guy, and her children Richard, Deana, and Janet.
Those left to cherish her memory include her granddaughter Ashley Turbeville and husband Scott of Denver, Colorado, along with their daughter and Curtis’ namesake, Emma, her grandson Douglas Anderson of Olton, and her numerous other nieces, nephews, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be made to Main Street Church of Christ in Olton or Runningwater Draw Care Center P.O. Box 409 Olton, TX 79064.
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