Ruby LeeSamples

Ruby Lee Samples, 98, of Caddo Mills passed away January 19, 2012 at the Garnet Hill Skilled Nursing Home in Wylie.  Services will be held at 2:00 PM Monday at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with granddaughter Judy Daugett officiating.  Interment will follow at Memoryland Memorial Park.  Visitation will be from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Sunday at the funeral home.

Born November 8, 1913, in Salem Community near Leonard, Ruby was the daughter of James Eli and Elizabeth (Cleek) Calahan. On October 20, 1930, she married Ira Albert Samples in Hugo, Oklahoma.  She was a homemaker and a member of Van Sickle Baptist Church. Ruby loved her family and  took great joy in caring for them.  She loved cooking their favorite foods when they came to visit.  She had a passion for quilting and did so until her health prevented it.

Her survivors include her sons Billy Joe Samples and wife Laverne of Wylie, J. A. Samples and wife Mabel of Lake Kiowa, Virgle Lee Samples of Edgewood, and George Kenneth (Ken) Samples and wife Drema of Houston; a daughter Helen Peacock of Caddo Mills; 15 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and 32 great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, son-in-law Bill Peacock, daughter-in-law Kay Samples, grandson Tim Peacock, granddaughter Shirley Carter, great-granddaughter Kimberly Melton, and four sisters and one brother.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons Rick Peacock, Ronnie Samples, Glenn Samples, Gary Samples, Virgle Samples, Jr., and Heath Samples.

The family request memorials be made to Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, NC   28201-0001 or Samaritan's Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607-3000.