Ruby Banister

The graveside services and burial will be held at 2:30 P.M. on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at Plainview Memorial Park Cemetery with Rev. Clark Williams, pastor of First United Methodist Church of Canyon, officiating. The family will receive friends from 5:00 to 7:00 pm on Monday at Brooks Chapel. Ruby, the oldest of eight children, was born on December 13, 1911, in Capitan, NM to Lanham and Clara O"Hair. She moved to Canyon from Plainview in 1987 and transferred her membership to First United Methodist Church of Canyon. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wesley Banister, in 1961, two brothers, Claud and Jack O"Hair, and two sisters, Nora Cothern and Helen Payne. Survivors include two daughters, Jerry Woods and husband, Bennie, of Canyon, and Joy Johnson and husband, Waylon, of Plainview; three sisters, Kay Collier of Bakersfield, CA, Ann Stull and Nita Birkholz, both of Las Cruces, NM; five grandchildren, Sandra Brown and husband, Donnie, of Boys Ranch, Randy Woods and wife, Carolyn, of Baton Rouge, LA, Debbie Hearn and husband, Rod, of Plainview, Eddie Johnson and wife, Tina, of Gainsville, and Jennie Patridge of Lubbock; two great grandchildren; a special cousin, Dora Mae Brown of Pampa; many neices including, Lana Barnett and June Thompson of Tulia, and Marlene Penn of Deming, NM; and many nephews. The family requests memorials be to a favorite charity.