- Date Of Birth: June 11, 1921
- Date Of Death: June 30, 2014
- State: Texas
Ruby Lee Weems, June 11, 1921 – June 30, 2014.
Ruby Weems, 93 of Belton. Ruby Lee Wright was born on June 11, 1921 in Holland, Texas to William Henry Wright and Maggie Mae Henderson Wright. She died June 30, 2014 in a local nursing home. Ruby attended school in Academy. She graduated valedictorian in 1938 at the age of 16. During her valedictory address, there was a young man in the audience named Barton Weems.
Even though they had never previously met, Barton turned to his friend and said, “I’m going to marry that girl.” Ruby and Barton were married on May 1, 1944 in Temple, Texas while Barton was home on leave from serving in the navy during World War II. They were blessed with sixty years of marriage until Barton’s death on October 30, 2004. Ruby attended Mary Hardin Baylor College and worked for the US Soil Conservation Service. She was a bookkeeper for Empire Seed Company in Temple for 15 years. She taught Sunday School for many years at the Heidenheimer Church of Christ and kept the books for the church.
Ruby’s greatest job and greatest joy was being mother to 5 children, and Memaw to 13 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren with a ninth great-grandchild due this fall. Ruby liked to say she raised her children on rock and roll – rocking her babies while singing “When the Roll is Called Up Yonder”. Ruby was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three brothers and two sisters. She is survived by three sons, Rodger Weems and wife Jeanette of Grand Prairie; Danny Weems and wife, Nelline of Temple; Kevin Weems and wife, Rachel of Abilene; and two daughters, Janell Hall and husband, Steve, of Diamond Bar, California, and Terry Boston and husband James of Belton; one sister, Billie Pearson of Fairfield and one sister-in-law, Janice Wright Means of Salado.
If you chose one word to describe Ruby’s life, that word would be unselfish. As the eldest of seven children, she helped her parents raise her younger siblings and loved serving her family. She married her sweetheart, even after he came home from war with severe hearing loss. She took her mother-in-law into her home and cared for her and later did the same thing for her mother, all the while raising five children.
