Ruby Ladine (Dean) Taylor (Tulia)

Tulia, Texas—Ruby Ladine (Dean) Taylor, 80, beloved mother, grandmother and great grandmother went to be with the Lord on January 17, 2013. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 pm Saturday, January 19, 2013 at Rose Hill Cemetery. A visitation will be held from 1:00 to 2:00 pm Saturday, January 19, 2013 at the funeral home. A celebration of life will follow in the home at 66 Fannin Dr. for friends and family. Dean grew up in the Wichita Mountains near Meers, OK and graduated from Cache High School. She then attended court reporting school in Plainview, TX where she met and married Stephen Clyde Taylor in 1952. She worked for Judge Bently, the Plainview Police Dept. and the City of Plainview. Stephen and Dean moved to Kress in 1976 and Dean worked part time for Andy’s Market. After Stephen retired in 1992 they moved to Waurika, OK to go fishing. In 2004 they returned to Tulia to be near their daughter Deborah. Dean is best known to her family and friends for her chocolate cake, her love of fishing, reading, and her generous heart and to her great grandchildren she will be remembered for bestowing little gifts each time they came. Dean is preceded in life everlasting by her precious husband: Stephen, her parents: Earl and Maggie Stewart, one sister: Sue Willoughby, two nephews: Mitch Crow and Glen Stewart and one great niece. She is survived by two sons: David Taylor of Red Oak, TX and Virgil Taylor of Oklahoma City, OK, one daughter: Deborah Crawford of Tulia, TX, six grandchildren: Tonya Brewer, Joseph Chitty and wife Nickie, Keely Chitty Taylor and husband Scott, Joda Wilks and husband Jay, Katie Taylor and Coleman Taylor, six great grandchildren: Nicholas, Sydney and Allison Taylor, Natalie and Mace Chitty and Abby Kilgore with two more great grandchildren due in March and April. Also survived by one aunt: Eula Bullard of Amarillo, two sisters: Shirley Kennedy of Oklahoma City, OK and Georgie Miller of Waurika, OK, two brothers: Bud Stewart and wife Ila of Rush Springs, Ok and Don Stewart and wife Martha of Marlow, OK, 11 nieces and nephews and numerous great nieces and nephews all of whom she loved very much. Memorials may be made to Area Community Hospice, 3109 Olton Rd., suite 300, Plainview, Texas 79072.