This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jenkins, Broome Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9705 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 15 June 1995 Ruby Belle Jenkins Broome, 93, formerly of Rockdale, died Sunday June 11 in Pasadena, Texas. She married Earnest Vaughn Broome April 30,1927 in Jasper, AL. Mr. Broome died in June 1973. Mrs. Broome was baptized in Huntsville, AL at age 10. She had been a member of the Murray Street Church of Christ since 1974. She moved to Pasadena, Texas in May 1995. Mrs. Broome graduated from Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, in 1964 with a Bachelor of Science degree. She taught in Vietnam in 1966 in a Christian missionary school She later taught at the Fort Worth Christian School and retired in 1973. She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents and three brothers, William, Flavil, and Austin Jenkins. Survivors include three daughters, Anne Elizabeth Rice and husband Tom of Pearland, Christine Waters and husband Kenneth of Rockdale and Mary Louise Shugart and husband Joe of Pasadena; one son, Dr. Lesunda Eugene Broome and wife Sue of Plano; one sister, Lorena Burke of Athens, AL; 15 grandchildren, also, 13 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, June 14, Phillips & Luckey Funeral Home. Minister Adrin Fletcher officiating. Burial was in Laurel Land Cemetery, Fort Worth. Pallbearers were grandsons, Kenny Waters of Rockdale, Danny Hunt of Pasadena, Robert Shugart of Louisiana, Randall Shugart, Ronald Shugart and Jonathon Shugart of Pasadena.