Ruby Frost

Services will be at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at the First United Methodist Church in Happy with Rev. Tom Stribling officiating. Burial will be in Happy Cemetery. The family will receive friends following the service at 8301 W. FM 1705, Happy, TX. Ruby was born April 6, 1919 to the late Jim Sackett and Elsie Arnold Sackett on a farm five miles west of Pampa, in a blizzard. Neighbors took a buggy to get the doctor, and the blizzard was so bad that the doctor had to stay for a couple of days. Ruby's mother and grandmother died in the flu epidemic of 1919, when Ruby was just nine months old. At the age of twelve, Ruby moved to Happy to live with Grandpa Arnold, after her first stepmother died. It was in Happy, Texas that she met John E. (Jack) Frost, as he lived just down the street from Grandpa Arnold. They were married at Vega by Judge B. L. Freeman on November 26, 1936. They were married for 71 years. They moved to the farm five miles west of Happy, where Ruby resided until her death. Ruby was very involved with her boys in church and in their school events. It was at Happy and the Ranch at Endee, NM that she and Jack raised their four boys, Bill, Bob, Len, and Zeke. Ruby enjoyed her children, grands, great-grands, and great-great-grands. She loved them all. She was preceded in death by her mother, Elsie Sackett, stepmother, Myrtle Vera Murdy Sackett, her father, J. D. (Jim) Sackett, stepmother, Lucy Sackett, half brothers, J.D. Sackett, C.H. Sackett, and baby Jerry Sackett, half sisters, Vera Cornett and Edna Bryant, and two daughters-in-law, Joan Nobile Frost and DJ Crain Frost Pennington. Survivors include her four sons, Bill Frost, of Pampa, Bob Frost and wife, Jane, of San Jon, NM, Len Frost and wife, Vicki, of Tucumcari, NM, and Zeke Frost and wife, Susie, of Happy; three half brothers, Floyd Sackett and wife, Janice, of Pampa, Paul Sackett and wife, Martha, of Dallas, and Dan Sackett and wife, Bonnie, of Amarillo; two half sisters, Billie Enterline, of Long Beach, CA and Dana Sue Biship, of Karnes City, TX; eleven grandchildren; nineteen great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to the First United Methodist Church Building Fund, Box 56, Happy, TX 79042.