View this Video Tribute Mrs. Ruth Stout, age 87, of 3384 Crackers Neck Road, Mountain City, TN passed away after a brief illness on Friday, March 13, 2009 in Watauga Medical Center, Boone, NC. She was the daughter of the late Willard Norris and Ethel Isaacs Norris. Ruth was a member of Dyson Grove Baptist Church. She was a homemaker and loved taking care of her grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 67 years, M. M. Stout, in 2002; three sons: J. R. Stout, Ronda Stout and Billy Ray Stout; two brothers: Robert Norris and Lee Norris; and three sisters: Chloe Combs, Pauline Meeks, and Mae Griffin.
Survivors include: one daughter: Betty Roberts of Mountain City, TN; one son: Jack Stout and wife Sharon, of Mountain City, TN; one step son: Jimmy Stout, of Mountain City, TN; one brother: Walter Norris, of Kansas City, MO. Several grandchildren, great grandchildren and great great grandchildren, several nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Ruth Stout will be conducted at 8:00 pm Monday, March 16, 2009 from the Charles B. Hux Memorial Chapel of Hux-Lipford Funeral Home with the Rev. Leonard Fletcher to officiate. Music will be provided by Jamie Roberts. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 pm prior to the funeral service. Graveside services and interment will be held on at 10:00 am Tuesday, March 17, 2009 in the Stout Family Cemetery. Pallbearers will be grandsons. Honorary Pallbearers will be Kenny Norris, Bob Stout, Dr. Raina Sluder, Bruce Smith, Nancy Brown, and Barbara Dunn.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributations may be made to Johnson County Rescue Squad, 203 Vandilla Street, Mountain City, Tennessee 37683.
Friends may call at the residence of her son Jack Stout, 3384 Crackers Neck Road, or at her daughter, Betty Roberts’ residence, 311 Melvin Brown Lane, Mountain City, Tennessee.
Hux-Lipford funeral home is serving the Ruth Stout Family.