SERVICES TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1987, 2:00 PM FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MANNING, IOWA
OFFICIATING REVEREND RANDY ROSS
ORGANIST CONNIE SIEPKER
VOCALIST JUDY JOENS
INTERMENT MANNING CITY CEMETERY
CASKETBEARERS: DICK CRANDALL, LYLE ARP, ORVILLE HINZ, AL CARR, RAY PRATT, CLIFFORD TANK
HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: BRIAN E. BUCKLIN, PHILLIP M. KENNEDY, HAROLD SCHMIDT, ORVILLE BETTS, HUGO AHRENDSEN, CLARENCE STAMMER
EASTERN STAR MEMORIAL SERVICE MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1987, 7:30 PM OHDE FUNERAL HOME, MANNING, IOWA

THE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS THEIR GRATITUDE FOR YOUR KINDNESS EVIDENCED IN THOUGHT, WORD, AND DEED, AND INVITES YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR LUNCH AND FELLOWSHIP AT THE CHURCH FOLLOWING THE COMMITTAL SERVICE

Ruby, daughter of Clint and Clara (Eckley) Chamberlain, was born April 22, 1907, at Panama, Shelby County, Iowa. At the age of seven the family moved to Winner, Tripp County, South Dakota. There she attended elementary and high school and Spearfish College for one year. She taught in country schools in Tripp County for eight years. Ruby attended Capitol Beauty School in Omaha, Nebraska, during two summers, obtaining a cosmetology license and she worked in Helen's Beauty Shoppe for one year in Winner, South Dakota. After that she was employed by the Federal Government at the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office and at the Signal Corps Repair Shop at Fort Omaha from 1936 to 1945. On December 12, 1945, Ruby was united in marriage with Leonard E. Bucklin of Bayard, Iowa. To this union two children were born, Gary and Rhonda. After the children entered school, Ruby attended Drake University and taught in Bayard for 15 years. In 1971 she moved to Manning where she lived with her brother, Cleo Chamberlain.

Ruby was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Manning where she was the president and circle leader of the United Presbyterian Women's Organization. She was also elected elder of the church. She was Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star, belonged to the Manning Garden Club and was a member of the Daughters of the Nile of Sioux City and secretary and president of the Past Matron's Club.

Ruby had been a resident of the Manning Plaza Nursing Home for a short time but was able to return to her home in Manning this spring where she died on Saturday, April 11, 1987, at the age of 79 years, 11 months, and 20 days.

She was preceded in death by her parents; by her husband; by a sister, Lois Hurd; and by three brothers, Robert, William, and Cleo. Ruby is survived by her son, Gary Bucklin and his wife, Joanne, of Creston; by her daughter, Rhonda and her husband, Phillip Kennedy, of Britt; by five grandchildren: Sharla, Kimberly, and Phillip Kennedy; and Angela and Brian Bucklin; by a brother, Lyle Chamberlain, of Mesa, Arizona; by four sisters, Merle Moody and Mildred Christensen, of O'Neill, Nebraska; Zera Olsen, of Bayard, Nebraska; and Faye Hill, of Carroll.