Ruthe Wasson Ruthe Mae Willis Wasson, 94, passed away at home in Snowflake on June 9, 2020. She was born Oct. 17, 1925, in Riordan to Vern Willis and Pearl Hunt Willis. There will be a viewing from 6 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16, at Owens Livingston Mortuary, located at Heritage Chapel, 84 E. 19 S. in Snowflake. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 17, at the R.V. Mike Ramsay Memorial Cemetery in Snowflake. When she was six months old the family moved to Snowflake and as she liked to say, she lived on “back street” the rest of her life. A favorite saying was “Don’t try to transplant me.” She went to school in Snowflake and graduated high school in 1943. After World War II ended and Paul Wasson returned from the prison camps in Japan, they met and were married in 1946. They had three sons, Ron, Reed and Wes. She always called her sons and their friends “her boys”. She was a homemaker but worked briefly for the post office. When Paul died in 1983, she went to work for Snowflake schools and very much enjoyed those years with students and staff. She was an outdoors person and liked to walk. She always had a big garden and lots of flowers in her yard. Although she liked “back street”, she did travel. She enjoyed family trips to Hawaii and Mexico. She was able to visit the Philippine Islands to see World War II sites with her nephew and his wife, Boyd and Joann Gardner. She was preceded in death by husband, Paul; sons, Reed and Wes; and great-granddaughter Pamela. She is survived by son, Ron; grandchildren, William Wasson, Paula Williams, Stephen Wasson, Clarissa Baldwin and David Wasson; and six great-grandchildren. Owens Livingston Mortuary of Snowflake handled the arrangements.
