Ruby Zamudio

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Services for Ruby Elois Zamudio, 90, San Antonio, Texas, formerly of Ada, are 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, the Rev. Ken Armstrong will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Zamudio died Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at her home in San Antonio. She was born May 22, 1919, near Covington, Tenn., to Racy Jackson Hazlerig and Ruie Viola Eaker Hazlerig.
The family moved to Barry, Texas, when she was still a baby. She grew up during the Great Depression. Her parents made their living by renting farms, mostly in West Texas (Vernon, Chillicothe, Medicine Mound) and working the crops as sharecroppers. Mrs. Zamudio was Salutatorian of her graduating high school class at Medicine Mound, Texas. Her parents sent her to Ada, Okla., to attend college.
She married David Bernard Zamudio Sept. 14, 1943, in Ada. He died in 1987.
They moved to Oklahoma City and later returned to Ada in 1963 and opened Zamudio's Mexican Restaurant. After retiring, she became an artist. She was a member of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority in Ada and served in different offices there, including president, and transferred to the chapter in Prosper when she moved there in 1995. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star in Ada and a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. She became a member of St. David's Episcopal Church of San Antonio in 2006.
She lived for several years in Prosper, Texas. She later moved to Tulsa to be near her son and his family.
Survivors include her son, Mark Zamudio and his wife Dana, Tulsa; her daughter, Mercedes Zamudio, San Antonio, Texas; five grandchildren, Michael, Bonnie, John, Carrie and Stephen; and 10 great-grandchildren, Jasmine, Christopher, David, Anna, Lissa, Heather, Marissa, Jaxson, Gabriel and Sarah; and a sister, Lee Kinlay, Capetown, South Africa.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and siblings, Laura Myrtle, James David, Delbert Adolphus, Clarence Vigil, (Ruby) Georgia Pearl, and Jack Octa Hazlerig.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada