Ruth Jones

Funeral services for Ruth Jones will be 11 a.m. Monday, April 29, 2024 at Schowengerdt Funeral Chapel (660-679-6555) in Butler, Missouri. Visitation prior to services Monday 10 - 11 a.m. at the Schowengerdt Chapel. Burial in West Union Cemetery near Cleveland, Missouri. Contributions to Appleton City Manor or Salvation Army. Online condolences www.schowengerdtchapel.com.
Mary Ruth Jones, age 98 of Butler, Missouri died Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at Appleton City Manor in Appleton City, Missouri. She was born February 24, 1926 the daughter of Leonard Abraham and Minnie May Allen Kaufman in Leads, North Dakota.
Ruth, the youngest of four children, grew up in North Dakota until she was 12 and moved to a farm in Missouri. She helped her dad with cattle, cleaning barns and many other chores. Ruth attended the Butler High School where she met her future husband, John Paul Jones. When she was 16, Ruth went to California during World War II and was a welder on ships and planes while John went to war for four years. They kept in contact with each other and when he returned home they were married on November 3, 1945 at the Butler Court House. They lived on a farm west of Passaic, Missouri where they raised three wonderful daughters, Janice, Sherry and Ginger. They raised a big garden, milked cows and had many chores. Some other places that Ruth worked was at the Pecan Factory in Butler, Bass Buster's Fishing Lures in Amsterdam, Missouri and as an OB Nurse for Bates County Hospital in Butler until her retirement in 1983.
Ruth had several pastimes that included fishing, camping, reading, visiting with friends and family, cooking and shopping. She loved quilting, sewing, cross stitching and dancing whether it was the waltz, two-step or line dancing.
Ruth is survived by three daughters, Janice McCulley and husband Frank of Archie, Missouri, Sherry Sage of Peculiar, Missouri and Ginger Zellmer of Butler, Missouri; five grandchildren, Alice Hunholz and husband Marty, John McCulley and wife Wendy, Shawn Sage and wife Jessi, Brad Sage and Shanyn Peterson and husband Clayton; 13 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John P. Jones; a brother, Clarence Kaufman; and two sisters, Rose Christopher and Ellen Nieder.