Graveside service for Ruth Ada Petty will be 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, October 11, 2017 at Sunset Memorial Gardens with Chaplain Leonard Reimer, Promise Care Hospice officiating.

Burial will be under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends from 7:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Ruth Ada Petty, age 90, of Lawton, passed away Sunday, October 8, 2017 in Lawton.  She was born November 1, 1926 in Gravette, Arkansas to Robert P. and Sarah Ella Wardlaw.  Ruth grew up and graduated high school in Arkansas.  Following graduation she took a job in Bentonville, Arkansas and later moved to Tulsa.  It was there she met Sam R. Petty who she married on July 23, 1954 in El Paso, Texas.  He preceded her in death on July 9, 1990.

Ruth was primarily a homemaker and followed her husband with his military career.  She attended First United Methodist Church in Lawton and was a member of the Order of Eastern Star and the Society of Military Widows.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Leslie and Kevin Hall; her granddaughter, Samantha Petty Alexander; great grandsons, Bryce and Sammy Alexander; her sister-in-law, Orpha Rea Wardlaw; and nieces, Eva Rea Fincher, Christi Wardlaw and Ellen Harris.

Her parents, her husband, her son, Bryce R. Petty, and her brother, John Arthur Wardlaw, preceded her in death.

The family extends a special thanks to the staff of Promise Care Hospice – Jana, Erika, Amanda, Chaplain Leonard and Shelly.