Ruby Oleta Williams

Funeral for Ruby Oleta Williams will be 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, January 28, 2025 in Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel.

Burial will follow at Ft. Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, Okla.

The family will greet friends from 5 p.m. — 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

The service may be viewed by following the livestream link at www.beckerfuneral.com or by visiting the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Facebook page.

Ruby Oleta Williams, age 91, of Lawton, passed away Sunday, January 19, 2025.

On November 1, 1933, she was the second child born to George and Lorena Johnson. Growing up on a farm in Sterling, Okla., with her parents and siblings, she graduated high school in 1951.

She married Roy K. Williams in 1952, having 6 children. She lived a full and happy life, traveling extensively throughout the world with her husband and children as a Military wife and mother.

Italy was one of her favorite places; she could talk for hours about her experiences there. She even adapted some of the words and phrases they used in Europe such as “bita?” and “ciao bella” meaning “what?” and “goodbye beautiful”. She was an excellent seamstress, she sewed her drapes and many of her kids clothes by hand.

Ruby’s exceptional baking skills earned her a reputation for creating the best cakes in Oklahoma. People from across the region would request her baking services for special occasions. She hand crafted each cake with love and passion. She had a natural talent for baking and decorating, and could make realistic roses out of icing, not fondant, but icing she made from scratch. She made many sizes, shapes, and styles, you name it, she could make it happen, but one of the best ones she would make was her pistachio cake! You better get a piece while you can! It was that good!

Ruby loved her family immensely; they truly brought her the most happiness in life. When her children were in school Ruby was a home room mother for the schools. She actively participated in numerous school events for her children all the way to her great-great grandchildren. She was very wise, sweet, caring, fun, sometimes stubborn, and always happy; traits that she passed down to her family. She was always helping others and enjoyed assisting the local Salvation Army.

Ruby was an active member, and friend with her local TOPS group that she loved and was Lead for several years. She was a devoted wife, mother, sister, aunt, cousin, grandmother, and friend. All who knew her, loved and cherished her. She truly was a beautiful and genuine soul who left an everlasting impression on everyone she met. She will be missed dearly by so many. Her memory will live on forever in the hearts of those who knew her.

For now we say “CIAO”

Survivors include three sons and their spouses, Kenneth Dale and Gloria Williams, Warr Acres, James Allen and Debbie Williams, Naylor, Georgia and Larry Don, Sr. and Debbie Williams, Cache, daughter, Gail Hanson, Duncan, sisters, Ida Jo Bussey and Nyla Johnson, both of Sterling, sister-in-law, Oreene Jackson, Blanchard, brothers-in-law and their spouses, Johnny and Linda Williams, Davis and Bobby and Alice Williams, Del Rio, Texas, fourteen grandchildren, fifteen great grandchildren, three great great grandchildren and a host of family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy K. Williams, daughters, Linda and Liana Lee Williams, grandson, Dusty Williams, son-in-law, Tom Hanson, sister, Juanita Kerr, brother, Elmer Johnson, brother-in-law, Charles Jackson and her parents.

An online guest book and sympathy cards are available at www.beckerfuneral.com