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Submitted: 4/18/15 • Approved: 4/20/15 • Last Updated: 4/23/15 • R1070085-G1070084-S3
Nov 25, 1909 - Jan 3, 1998
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Ruth Fancher Lynch Whitaker died in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on January 3, 1998. She had moved to a skilled nursing facility there, nearer family, some months earlier, after having fallen and broken her hip in her Clarendon, Arkansas, home. She was 88.
The only child of Clarendon businessman Hubert Elliot Lynch and Georgia Parker Lynch, she was born and grew up in Clarendon, and eventually returned there with her husband, the Rev. Alexander W. Whitaker, Jr. She was buried next to him just outside the town on January 9, 1998, after a funeral service at Clarendon's First Presbyerian Church.
The two were married July 24, 1929 in Clarendon. He was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian church and had churches in various towns around the Mid-South--his last in Clarendon. He also served as an Army chaplain in the European theater of World War II. He died January 13, 1970 at age 66.
After they moved back to Clarendon in 1965, they lived in the home they built at 424 Jefferson Street, on the lot where her parents' house had stood (it had burned down). She managed the commercial and residential property she had inherited from her father.
Before her marriage, she had attended the Bush Conservatory of Music in Chicago; she played piano and organ. Her other avocations included bridge and needlework. At one time she owned and operated a needlework store called The Four Needles.
Ruth and Alex Whitaker had two children: a son and a daughter. Their son, Alexander Whyte Whitaker III, died before her, in 1987. They had eight grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
Contributed on 4/18/15 by hawkinsdonna
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