Wasco-Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Graves, Ruby Alice May 6, 2004
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The Dalles Chronicle, May 11, 2004
     Ruby Alice Graves, 84, a resident of Maupin, died at the local hospital 
Thursday, May 6, 2004. 
     She was born May 30, 1919, in Joseph, the younger of two children to 
Frank and Marie Alice (Simmons) Kutch. She was raised and graduated high 
school in Joseph in the Class of 1937. 
     She married Jerrold Blandford Graves on May 29, 1941, in Enterprise. They 
lived in Pendleton, Lake View, Pilot Rock, Tygh Valley and settled in Maupin 
in 1951 working in the grocery business. In the mid-1950’s, the couple started 
Graves Market and they continued to operate it until 1981 when their daughter, 
Debra, and her husband, Ted, assumed control of the business. 
     She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, American Legion Auxiliary 
and enjoyed her family, life, dancing, old time music, the outdoors, 
gardening, cooking and cookie making and school activities.
     She is survived by two daughters, Jeralee and her husband, Paul Treanor, 
Salem; Debra and her husband, Ted Kuhnhausen, Maupin; five grandchildren, 
Melissa Pease, Hermiston; Mike and his wife, Tanya Barrett, Moro; Brian and 
his wife, Kristi Barrett, Umatilla; Margaret and her husband, John Vike, 
Hillsboro and Jerry Kuhnhausen, Maupin and seven great-grandchildren. She was 
preceded in death by her husband, Jerrold in 1991 and her sister, Rita.
     Viewing visitation will be held at Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home 
on Thursday, May 13, from 2 to 7 p.m. and on Friday, from 8 to 10 a.m.
Mass of Christian burial will be held at St. Peter’s Catholic Church on 
Friday, May 14, at 11 a.m. with Rev. Joseph Kelbel as celebrant. Interment 
will follow at The Dalles Three Mile Road Odd Fellows Cemetery, formerly 
Parklawn Cemetery.
     Memorials may be made to Southern Wasco Co. Ambulance, PO Box 125, 
Maupin, OR 97037 or to a charity of choice.


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Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, 
Oregon, Dan Spatz, Editor (e-mail dated 3/7/2006).


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