Ruby Adell Simpson

Ruby Adell (Purcell) Simpson passed away Oct. 28 at the Residency in Scottsbluff.
Her funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011 at the First United Methodist Church in Scottsbluff with Pastor Matt Fowler officiating, and at the First United Methodist Church in Clinton, Oklahoma with Rev. Youngberg officiating on Nov. 3 at 1 pm. Interment will be in the White Rose Cemetery at Reydon, Okla., beside her husband Charles and just five miles from the farm where both Adell and her daughter Janet were born. Friends may call from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. on Sunday at Jolliffe Funeral Home in Scottsbluff, and from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton, Okla. Memorials in Adell's honor may be made in care of the First United Methodist Church of Scottsbluff or to the Methodist Church in Clinton, Okla. Online condolences may be left at www.jolliffefuneralhome.com. Jolliffe Funeral Home in Scottsbluff is in charge of arrangements.
Adell was born Nov. 3, 1915, at Rankin (now Reydon), Okla., to John Bert and Kitty (Baker Purcell). She graduated from Rankin High School in 1932. She attended business school in Waco, Texas, and later attended Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Okla. In 1935, she married Charles Edward Simpson who spent most of his life as a pastor in the Oklahoma United Methodist Conference. Adell was a supportive minister's wife as they served churches in Vinson, Canute, Sharon, Shattuck, Fairview, Christ Church in Oklahoma City, Grand Avenue Church in McAllister, Draper Street Methodist in Shawnee, Clinton and Mt. Zion. Their daughter, Janet Deane, was born May 6, 1936. After Charles' death in February 1978, Adell moved back to Clinton.
Adell taught Sunday school and was a member of the United Methodist Women, where she held local, district and conference offices. She was a P.E.O. member and a member of study clubs and bridge groups. She volunteered for the Methodist Retirement Center in Clinton and was an active member of the Clinton United Methodist Church.
Adell loved her family, her friends and the United Methodist Church. She loved living in Clinton and all the other places where she lived as a minister's wife. In fact, she loved life. In June of 2008, at the age of 92, Adell sold her home and car in Clinton and moved to Scottsbluff to live with her daughter, Janet Gardner.
Survivors include daughter Janet Gardner; three grandchildren Cindy Conger and husband, Kirk, Charles Gardner and wife, Mun, Tim Gardner and wife, Darla; great-grandchildren Kyong Gardner, Craig and Lauren Conger, Hayden, Kale and Stella Gardner; her sister June Devine; two brothers-in-law Don Simpson and wife Maria, and Jack Swopes and sister-in-law Sue Simpson; and many wonderful nephews, nieces and their families.
Adell was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Simpson, her father, mother and two brothers, four sisters and three grown sisters, one granddaughter and one great-great-granddaughter.