Photos from Aunt Ruby Saltness Funeral

Photos from
Aunt Ruby Saltness Funeral

March 7 2003
See Obituary Below

Amarillo Globe-News, March 6, 2003

   Ruby Joyce Faus Saltness

   SPEARMAN - Ruby Joyce Faus Saltness, 65,
died Sunday, March 2, 2003,
   in Lubbock.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Union Church with the Rev. Gary
   Smith officiating. Burial will be in Ochiltree Cemetery in Perryton by
   Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.

   Mrs. Saltness lived many years in the San Fernando Valley, and had
   lived in Lubbock for the past eight years. She was loved by her family
   and many friends. She was a member of the Baptist church. She was a
   licensed vocational nurse.

   She was preceded in death by her father, Rube Faus; her mother, Julia
   McManus; two sisters, Rosa Steele Pierce and Juanita Pierce; two
   nephews, Calvin Pierce and Richard Pierce; and a niece, Jammie Pierce.

   Survivors include four daughters, Josan Metz of Fort Tuna, Calif.,
   Julia Williams of Russell, Kan., Dixie Tolbert of Sulphur, Okla., and
   Juanita Hloucha of Shattuck, Okla.; a son, David Oakley of Lubbock;
   two sisters, Bertha Willison and Phyllis Mann, both of Gage; a
   brother, Harry Faus of Los Angeles; 17 nieces and nephews; 19
   grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and a special friend, Johnny
   Taylor of Lubbock.

27. RUBY JOYCE⁶ FAUS (REUBEN ROLAND PAUL⁵, GEORGE WEICKER⁴, WILLIAM DELONG³, HENRY (II)², HENRY I¹) was born May 05, 1938 in Spearman TX Hansford County. She married (1) THOMAS OAKLEY. She married (2) ALLAN WILLIAMS 1955 in Clayton NM, son of ??? WILLIAMS and ANN DEBEAUX. He was born January 27, 1923 in lives in Pecos TX born in Colorado City TX.

Notes for RUBY JOYCE FAUS:

Ruby Faus Saltness

My Parents, Ruben Paul Faus, and Julia Rose Hibbs, were born at Range, Beaver County Oklahoma: March 15 1904, and September 20, 1911, respectively.

Daddy, Youngest son of George Faus and Sarah Davis Faus, his mother died when he was one year old and he was raised by his sisters, Effie (Cox) and Ella (Buschman). He worked at the Hansford Headlight setting type as a youth and went to Old Hansford School. Mamma, oldest child of Robert and Lura Luke Hibbs, attended New Hope and Waka Schools. They were married February 28, 1930 and six children were born to this union; Rosa 1930, Harry 1932, Jaunita 1933, Bertha 1935, Ruby 1937 and Phyllis 1944. I, Ruby Joyce, was born at the old Dennis place in Spearman. We moved to Amarillo in 1941 and I attended the first four years of school at McKinnley and Pleasant Valley. We moved back to Spearman in 1948. I left school, before graduating, for marriage and did not return until 1966 when I had the opportunity to attend secretarial school in Woodland Hills, Ca., and, receive a high school diploma at that time. I worked as Sr. Clerk-Typist for L.A. County and UCLA. My children and I moved to California in 1965, we lived in Canoga Park for nine years and moved to Oregon in 1974 where I attended Pacific University for one semester. I am presently enrolled at PSU at Goodwell, Oklahoma and looking forward to a degree next year in Business Administration. My children are; Jo San (Williams) Metz. I born September 14, 1954 at Perryton, Texas, graduated from Canoga Park High School in 1973 and is now a dental assistant. She and George Metz have one child "Little" Georgie, born January 18, 1975. Julie Anne Williams, born October 19, 1955 in Hobbs, N.M., graduated CPHS in 1974. She has two daughters, Jessica Jewlyn Williams born September 1, 1975 in Port-land, OR. and Paul Rea Williams born July 31, 1979 in Sayre, Okla. Dixie Lynn (Williams) Burch born September 30, 1959 at Odessa, Texas, graduated from Spearman High School in 1978. She and James have one daughter, Rachel Irene, born October 30, 1979 in Spearman. David Malcom Oakley, born June 21, 1962 in Perryton, is a junior in high school and works at Excel Chevrolet. Jaunita Sue Oakley, born December 5, 1964 in Canadian, is a freshman in high school and is living with her sister Julie in Sayre, Oklahoma. We moved to Spearman in September of 1977. I have worked at the Stationmaster's House Museum since that time as director and part-time at Martin's Steak Garden. We are members of the Baptist Church.

By Ruby Faus Saltness from: History of Hansford County Vol 1 page 253

Letter to the Editor of the Amarillo Daily News

I read with interest your article (July 5 1978) on attempting to make

the Panhandle a separate state. I also 'had 'read the letter from Mrs. Carol Ennis of Friona on Sunday. . These thoughts and reasoning should have justified the airing and thought of the general public no matter how unsympathetic they may be at the present time. Although the pros and cons are many and varied it is a very good concept. For instance we could name our

new state Llano Estacado (the great high plains). Our border could be the Caprock Escarpment, the natural border separating the high Plains from the rolling plains of central Texas.

This is an outstanding natural borderline. Plainview or Pampa would be a good state capitol excluding Amarillo or Lubbock because they fight enough: already and either, being a capitol, would make the other jealous and the above mentioned are pretty neutral towns. I agree that we aren't adequately represented in Austin or Washington, D.C. but our towns in the Panhandle

are so far apart and separated and we would still be a large state so it is reasonable to assume that with the expense of building a state capitol building and other offices that we would need, we still would not be taken care of much better than in Austin. At 'least for a long 'time; it would take years to get organized into an efficient state, we dreamers can just dream on!

Ruby Saltness Spearman TX

Children of RUBY FAUS and THOMAS OAKLEY are:

51. i. DAVID MALCOLM⁷ OAKLEY, b. June 21, 1962.

ii. JUANITA SUE OAKLEY, b. December 05, 1964.

Children of RUBY FAUS and ALLAN WILLIAMS are:

52. iii. DIXIE⁷ WILLIAMS, b. September 30, 1959.

53. iv. JO SAN WILLIAMS, b. September 14, 1954, Perryton TX.

54. v. JULIA ANN WILLIAMS, b. October 19, 1956, odessa TX born Nov 1955???.

55. vi. JUANITA SUSAN WILLIAMS, b. December 05, 1964.