Jacksonville News – Former News ad director dies

04-15-2009

Jim Haynes led the singing at Oxford church of Christ.

Services for former Jacksonville News advertising director James “Jim” Haynes, 75, of Oxford were at 2 p.m. Monday, April 13, at the Oxford church of Christ. Bob Prichard, Ed Smith and Charles Box officiated. Congregational singing was led by Ronnie Hubbard. Burial was in Oxford Memorial Gardens.

Mr. Haynes died April 11 at Stringfellow Memorial Hospital.

He retired from The McClellan News and The Jacksonville News where he served as advertising director for 20 years. While at the News, as a member of the Jacksonville Merchants Association, fellow JMA members voted to follow his suggestion and name the association’s fall festival Mountain Echoes.

“The business community has lost a true advocate in Jim Haynes,” said friend and fellow JMA member Jerry Klug.

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Corpus Christi Caller-Times – Obituaries

WARREN Ruby Gertrude (Richardson) Warren was born September 25, 1918 in Hasima, Matagorda County, Texas to the late Robert ‘Bob’ Gilbert and Myrtle Lillian (Sewell) Richardson of Victoria, Texas. Her family moved from Sweeny, Brazoria County, Texas in September 1933 to Victoria, Texas for her to enter 9th grade at Patti Welder High School where she graduated in the Spring of 1936. Next she enrolled in Victoria Junior College for higher education, graduating in 1938 with an Associates degree. She was a member of the Drum & Bugle Corp, under the late George Filley, Director. Final college years were at Sam Houston State Teacher’s College in Huntsville, Texas graduating in 1940 with a B.S. degree. Her first teaching position was at East Bernard Independent School District in Texas where she worked for one year prior to enrolling in nurses training at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Ruby returned to teaching a year later. While on vacation in Corpus Christi she met her future husband, Roy Warren, Jr., a chief petty officer in the Navy. They married August 17, 1945 in Corpus Christi at the end of WW II. Their military life carried them from coast to coast with their two daughters. In 1953, while Roy was at sea Ruby and the girls lived in Victoria, Texas with her parents, where she taught at Hopkins Elementary School. After moving to Corpus Christi, Texas Ruby taught at Skinner Elementary at West Oso Independent School District, where she eventually retired from teaching in 1977. Ruby often independently funded projects for her students’ enrichment.

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A cousin, and descendant of Ransom Middleton Meadows.

– Cathy