Ruth Boone Murray
December 31, 1907 ~ April 3, 2004
Resided in:
Asheville, NC
Ruth Boone Murray, 96, of 17 Reynolda Drive, Asheville, died Saturday, April 3, 2004.
Mrs. Murray was born in Yancey County and was a daughter of the late Andrew Jackson and Hettie Penland Boone. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Howard Murray, two brothers Hudson and Charles Boone and a sister Flora B. Banks.
She was a graduate of Dorland Bell High School and Washington College and was employed as an executive secretary at American Enka.
Surviving are one sister, Dorothy Boone Lillard of St. Petersburg, FL; one brother Zenus Boone and his wife Irene of Los Alamos, NM; one sister-in-law Kathleen Boone of Burnsville, and ten nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Rev. David Banks officiating. Private interment will be Wednesday at Crawford-Ray Memorial Park in Clyde.
Her family will receive friends from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home and request that memorials be made to Mountain Area Hospice, PO Box 25338, Asheville, NC 28813.
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Though our words cannot begin to ease the loss of Aunt Ruth,I only hope it helps, somehow,to know how much we care. Just remember that the ones we love are never gone, they live within our hearts forever as will she.
Love & prayers,
Kim Leggett & Family
Aunt Ruth was one of the world’s greatest examples of optimism and kindness. She truly practiced the fine art of only speaking of the positive to or about everyone. She bridged the gaps in relationships, served as a conduit for family contact and information, loved all and all loved her. She will be missed in so very many ways by so very many people. I am honored to have been named for her.
Mary Ruth Boone Heckrotte
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Thanks,
Mary Heckrotte
We are so very sorry. Love, Frances Wilson and Fran Barber
Aunt Ruth was a special lady. I most remember her at her home where we visited in Michigan, as well as at a special breakfast at the Grove Park Inn many years ago. She was my mother’s favorite, special aunt and she was loved dearly.