Ruby Lorene Gardner

Funeral services for Ruby Lorene Gardner, 92, of Portales, will be at 2:00 PM on October 13, 2009, at Wheeler Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Glen McCoy officiating. Burial will follow at Portales Cemetery with Troy Hinton, Alan Hinton, Dale Gardner, Danny Gardner, Jeremy Gardner, Casey Gardner, Lee Hinton, James Hinton and Evan Hinton as Pallbearers. Honorary Pallbearers for Ruby will be All Family and Friends and the Portales Pink Ladies.
Ruby was born on September 21, 1917, in Childress, Texas to William Paul and Mary Elizabeth (Manning) Landrum and passed away on October 9, 2009, in Portales. In 1918, her family moved to Tipton, Oklahoma where she attended school. It was there that she met her husband, Everett, and they were married on December 21, 1933. Everett has preceded her in death in 1992. In 1934, they moved to the Milensand, Causey area where Ruby and Everett farmed and ranched for some years. Ruby and Everett moved to Portales in 1980. Ruby was a member of the Causey Homemakers Club in Causey and Portales. She was also a member of the Portales Pink Ladies for 17 years.  She loved to paint, with many of her paintings hanging in family and friends homes today. She was on bowling teams in Portales and loved to play dominos, and cards with her friends. As a homemaker she was a very loving Wife, Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother. She always loved to have family over and cook for them.  Ruby was a former member for years at the First Baptist Church in Portales and a member of the Berrenda Baptist church in Roswell.
Ruby is preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Kermit Gardner; 3 brothers, Albert Landrum, Leonard Landrum, Talmadge Landrum, and a sister, Opal James.
She is survived by 2 sons, Stanley Gardner and wife, Jim Ann of Tulia, Texas, Don Gardner and wife, Sandy of Clayton, New Mexico; 2 daughters, Wanda Hinton and husband, E.L. of Roswell, Edna McIntyre and husband, L. B. of  Portales; a daughter-in-law, Sonja Gardner of Lubbock, Texas. Also surviving Ruby are 2 sisters, Dorothy Miller and husband, Bob of Roswell and Sybil Harris of Eugene, Oregon; 8 grandchildren; 10 Great grandchildren, and 6 great-great grandchildren also survive her.
Arrangements by Wheeler Mortuary of Portales. 575-356-4455.