Posted on: Jefferson County Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Mo/JeffersonObits/229 Surname: ------------------------- (Jefferson Republic, Thursday, July 27, 1961) Funeral services for John Franklin Ruff, 51, will be Friday, July 28, at 3 p.m. in a chapel of Mothershead Funeral Home. The Rev. Fred Shrum of First Methodist Church, De Soto, will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Mr. Ruff died July 25, he was preceded in death by his mother, Mrs. Irene A. Ruff. Survivors include; his father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ruff, De Soto; three sisters, Mrs. Alice Murray, Wellston, Mrs. Della Brickey, Phoenix, Ariz., and Mrs. Gertrude Crane, Flat River; and a step-brother, M.G. Wedler, Marion, Ill.