Obituaries

Ruby Duren Stingley of Atlanta, Texas passed away Sunday, July 10, 2022 at a Rusk, Texas nursing home. She was 98. Ruby was born September 17, 1923 in Malta, Texas to Luther and Paralee Ross Duren, the third of nine children. She graduated from James Bowie High School in 1941. Ruby married James Stingley in 1955 and their family moved to Atlanta, Texas in 1960 when her husband became the Atlanta Junior High principal. She worked as the secretary at Atlanta Junior High and the Cass County Special Education office for twenty years before retiring in 1990. She loved her cats and Baylor University, having watched seven family members attend college there including a daughter, son, and grandson. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Atlanta, Texas and was a faithful worker in the church nursery for 53 years.