Mrs. Ruth Elliott

March 1, 1930 - June 14, 2020

Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Elliott, 90, of Carthage, Texas will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Allen Tilley officiating. Burial will follow in the Murvaul Cemetery under the direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home. Visitation will be 9-10:00 a.m. prior to the service Tuesday. Mrs. Gladys Ruth Ritter Elliott was born March 1, 1930 in Gary, Texas. She passed this life June 14, 2020 in Carthage, Texas. Ruth was one of five children born to the marriage of Willie Gillespie and Nettie Lou Koonce Ritter. She was raised and completed schools in Gary, Texas. Ruth married James Jahue Elliott February 15, 1946 and they celebrated 61 years of marriage before he preceded her in death in 2007. Mrs. Elliott was a loving homemaker to her family and worked many years in food service at Panola College. She was a longtime member of the Murvaul Missionary Baptist Church and later joined the First Baptist Church of Carthage. She is also preceded in death by her parents, sisters, Louise Williams, Willie Mae Chadwick, Billie Dean Brooks, Olyene Johnson; half brother, Roy Miller; and half sister, Vinnie Arnold. Mrs. Elliott is survived by her daughters, Jane Jeffress and husband Dean of Carthage and Sandra Mitchell of Lake Murvaul; grandchildren, Deana Pruett and husband Chris of Alabaster, AL, Jennifer Sawyer and husband Todd of Tyler and Michael Mitchell and wife Tilda of Cleveland; great grandchildren, Caleb Pruett, Carleigh Pruett, Tiffany Mitchell and Cary Mitchell; numerous other relatives and a host of friends. The family would like to give special thanks to the staff at Winkler Place and Angel Care Hospice for all their loving care and support. The family suggest memorials be made to Murvaul Cemetery.