Ruth Wylie McAuley's Obituary
Ruth Wylie McAuley, age 93, passed away Monday, February 7th in Mt. Vernon, Texas. Family visitation will be Wednesday evening, 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Rader Funeral Home in Longview. A service to honor the life of Mrs. McAuley is scheduled for 10 AM Thursday at the Mobberly Baptist Church in Longview. Pastor Dr. Laney Johnson and Dale Perkins, Minister of Music, will direct the service. Brian Price, former Minister of Music, will provide special music. Interment will follow at Rosewood Park.
Mrs. McAuley was born July 27, 1911 to Hugh A. and Fannie Laura Wylie of Winnsboro, Texas. A graduate of Winnsboro High School, she received a Bachelor of Education degree from Texas Women?s University and a Master of Education degree from Stephen F. Austin University. Her career as a teacher began in Franklin County, Texas where she taught in, now forgotten, one-room rural school settings of Hamilton, Clear Water and Cypress communities. Most of her 47 years as a public school teacher were spent in the Spring Hill and Longview Independent School Districts. She will be remembered by hundreds of families as a teacher who loved her students and strived to bring out the very best in each of them. Self-respect, pride, dignity, truthfulness and honesty are words often used by friends and family to describe her life.
She was married to the late J.W.McAuley of Mt. Vernon, Texas in 1937 and was the mother of John W. McAuley, a resident of Winnsboro, Texas and James Jim F. McAuley of Longview, Texas now deceased. As a longtime member of the Mobberly Baptist Church, ?Ms. Mac?, as she was often called, brought encouragement and delight to both young and old.
Survivors include a son, John, daughter-in-law, Dorothy; grandsons, Jeff, Jay, Clint, Zach, and Collin and five great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers are: Raymond Shelton, Dennis Gronewald, Ralph Bailey, Ed Roberts, LeRoy Van Dyke, and Glen McAuley.
The family requests that memorials be made to the Mobberly Baptist Church Youth Center Building Fund.
A memorial guestbook may be signed at www.raderfh.com
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