Ruth Lona Shoopman
September 15, 1909 ~ October
11, 1994
Ruth Lona Shoopman, 85, a
resident of Paragould Nursing Center passed away Tuesday, October 11,1994 at Arkansas
Methodist Hospital.
Mrs. Shoopman was born September
15,1909, in Greene County. A member of the First United Methodist Church, she
was a retired registered nurse at Arkansas Methodist Hospital, where she was employed for
more than 40 years.
She was preceded in death by her
husband, Ralph Fay Shoopman in 1985. Her parents Luther and Emma Bibb/White and one
brother Eugene White.
Survivors include five sisters,
Selma Highfill, Alvie Textor and Dorothy Smith all of Paragould, Bernice Holland of
Buckner, Mo., and Geraldine Bentz of Batesville.
A graveside service will be at
2:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at Linwood Cemetery in Paragould with Joe Kennedy
officiating. Private family visitation will be held.
Mitchell Funeral Home of
Paragould is in charge of arrangements.
Some say love it is a river
that drowns the tender reed
Some say love it is a razer
that leaves your soul to bleed
Some say love it is a hunger
an endless aching need
I say love it is a flower
and you it's only seed
It's the heart afraid of breaking
that never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
that never takes the chance
It's the one who won't be taken
who cannot seem to give
and the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live
When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been too long
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong
Just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose
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