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Ruby Raye Mason Mixon

1915-2004

Ruby Raye Mason Mixon, longtime Snyder resident, died Sunday, Feb. 15, at her home after a sudden illness.

Service for Mrs. Mixon, 88, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Mike Henson, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Hillside Memorial Gardens.

Born Aug. 27, 1915 in Edgerly, La., she married Jim H. Mixon on Nov. 8, 1938 in Sweetwater. He died on Nov. 5, 1980.

Mrs. Mixon, a graduate of Ranger High School, moved to Snyder in 1948 when her husband was manager for J.C. Penney. They later purchased Mixon Tire and Supply that they operated for 24 years.

She had also worked for Gulf Oil in Odessa, J.C. Penney in Breckenridge, the Graham Brown Shoe Co. in Sherman and for Wes-T-Go Conoco in Snyder. Mrs. Mixon was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church.

She also was preceded in death by her parents, Ruby Ray (Doc) and Clara Skillern Mason; a sister, Anita Mansker; and a brother, Milton Mason.

Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Judy and Stuart Long of Houston and Janice and Chuck Galloway of Snyder; a sister, Tera Crook of Arlington; a brother-in-law, Toke Mansker of Fort Worth; four grandchildren, Jim Cole of Midland, Meredith Long Angelico and husband Scott of San Antonio, Garret Long of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Brittany Long of Austin.