Naomi Ruth Daniels Wall, at 90 years of age, a resident of Brownwood, Texas, after several years of advanced Alzheimer’s decease, went peacefully home to be with the Lord on Saturday, November 12, 2011.
Ruth Wall was born in Lovington, New Mexico, on November 4, 1921 to Sam and Lula May Daniels. Her family moved to West Texas and she attended school in Lamesa, completing the ninth grade with honors. Due to financial hardships, she had to quit school at that time, but she had a love for learning that never ceased and she continued educating herself her whole life.
Naomi Ruth Daniels married Alva Jasper Wall on June 11, 1938 when she was sixteen years of age. During their marriage, they lived primarily in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and Kansas, but they also made a short sojourn to serve the Lord in Florida and California.
When their firstborn, Carol Virginia, was a baby, they set off to Little Rock, Arkansas, so Alva could go to Bible Seminary to prepare for his calling to preach and pastor for the Lord. Through the following fifty-four years, Ruth Wall worked beside her husband, being a homemaker, a pastor’s wife, a Sunday school teacher, and a soul winner as they built and established churches all across the southern part of the United States. Alva Wall went to be with the Lord in August of 1962. After that time, Ruth lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for a few years and then settled permanently in Brownwood, Texas.
Ruth Wall is survived by two children, Carol Virginia and husband Ray Switzer, of Brownwood, Texas, and Mary Teresa and husband Tony Welch, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and their spouses. She has nine grand children and nineteen great grandchildren, with six great-great grandchildren. She also has one living sister, Johnnie Moore.
She was predeceased by her husband, Alva Wall; her son, Truman LaRoy, and six of her siblings, Vernon Daniels, Cecil Daniels, Mary Price, Ida Lisenbee, Eugene Daniels, and Juanita Baker.
Services will be held at First Baptist Church of Lake Brownwood, in Brownwood, Texas, on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:00 p.m., conducted by her grandsons Rev. Arthur Switzer and Rev. James Welch. Family will receive friends Tuesday morning, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, at the church. Contact Heartland Funeral Home or the family for more information.
She will be buried beside her husband in Oklahoma City. Graveside services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 16, at Arlington Memory Gardens Cemetery at Midwest City, OK.
The family would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to the Lighthouse Hospice and the staff at Bangs Nursing Home.
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