Ruby Ferguson Barnes Bowman

Services for Ruby Ferguson Barnes Bowman, 61, of Lufkin, were held at 2:00 p.m. Monday, December 10, 2007, in the Oakley-Metcalf Funeral Home Chapel, with Reverend Jerry Young officiating. Interment was in the Fairview Cemetery.

Mrs. Bowman was born March 24, 1946 in Angelina County, Texas, and she passed away Friday, December 7, 2007, in a local hospice facility. She was loving and devoted wife and mother, as well as a homemaker. She was of the Baptist Faith.

Survivors include her husband, Jerry Bowman of Lufkin; daughter, Debbie Self Vardeman of Lufkin; brother, A. T. Curtis of Gilmer and Jerry "Butch" Ferguson of Lufkin; sister and brother-in-law, Corine and Hampton Miller of Dallas; sisters, Betty Price of Diboll and Evelyn York of Tyler; sister, Sherry Sharp and friend Roxanna McGarity of Lufkin; and a number of nieces, nephews and other family members. Mrs. Bowman was preceded in death by her parents, Austin "Slim" and Evia Mae Ferguson; brother, Marion Fulton Ferguson; and sister, Cora Faye Durham.

Mrs. Bowman's nephews served as pallbearers.