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POOLE RUTH YVONNE WILLOUGHBY POOLE On Saturday, July 18, 2009. Beloved mother of Roy Donahue Peebles, Jr.; grandmother of Roy Donahue Peebles, III and Chloe Alexandra Peebles; sister of Edith Tucci, Hilda McIntosh, Carolyn Cramer, and Doris Carroll; cousin of Joyce Mathews and June Robinson. She is also survived by her daughter-in-law, Katrina Peebles; seven nieces and nephews and 15 great-nieces and nephews. On Monday, July 27, 2009 funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. at the Washington National Cathedral, Wisconsin Ave., NW at Massachusetts Ave., NW. Private interment. In lieu of flowers, contributions are encouraged to the Ruth Yvonne Poole Willoughby Endowed Scholarship Fund, at the University of the District of Columbia, 550 Biltmore Way, Suite 970, Coral Gables, FL 33134. Services by McGUIRE.
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Memories and Condolences
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Pathsy Martin
June 21, 2021
My son & I are reading your son’s book right now. Thank you! You were a great mother.
Edgar Hale
July 30, 2009
To Yvonnes family,
She will surely be missed by me. God bless all of you.
Edgar Hale
4025 Demooney Rd.
College Park, Ga 30349
Norman Prince
July 27, 2009
To Edith and the Family of Ruth Yvonne
Many years have passed, but I do remember Yvonne, and I offer my deepest sympathy for your loss. May God Bless you all and soothe your sorrow with joyful memories of her life.
Norman K. Prince
3714 Leeds Drive (zip: 20746)
Rose Scott-Fituwi
July 27, 2009
My sincere condolences to the entire Willoughby family on the loss of their loved one. May Yvonne's eternal soul find peaceful repose.
My four siblings and I used to live next door to Woody and Doris Willoughby on Bass Place in southeast Washington. We all played together whenever Linwood brought his daughters to visit their Uncle Woody and my mother's sister Doris. He would bring everybody boxes of Cracker Jack or candy "cigarettes". At that time, I was Rose Marie Francis.
I was in high school with Yvonne (one year behind) and had classes with both Carolyn and Doris Ann in different years. I'm sorry to say we lost contact when Woody and Doris divorced but I have thought of the girls often throughout the years.
May God bless and keep the Willoughby clan in His loving care.
Brian Wong
July 27, 2009
Your grief may ebb and flow. It has been said that each of us has this well deep inside of us that can be filled to the brim with grief. Every time we cry, we empty out some of the well. But the well fills again. The level of sorrow in your well may lessen as time passes, but it will never run dry. There will always be birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and those days when the well seems to fill to its brim again. We need to allow ourselves time to remember and mourn. It is part of our healing. Grief is a continuing journey.
Christal Parker-Batey
July 24, 2009
To the Family of Ruth Yvonne Poole:
My deepest sympathy to her son Don and his family. May she rest in peace and may your many fond memories bring you comfort at this difficult time.
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