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Submitted: 10/22/19 • Approved: 10/22/19 • Last Updated: 10/25/19 • R237181-G237180-S3
Wilton
March 25, 1914 - February 6, 1971
Ruth
February 6, 1917 - January 8, 2015
Ruth Ann Tynes Corkern, February 6, 1917 – January 8, 2015 was born in her parents’ home in Stateline, Louisiana. Throughout her long and productive life she had a wide range of experiences and careers.
She grew up helping on the family farm, picking cotton and doing other chores along with her siblings and many cousins. She played basketball at Pine High School and at Southeastern University. She briefly taught in public school before joining the First State Bank in Bogalusa, Louisiana. After World War II she moved with her husband to their farm in Pine, Louisiana. During the 1950s and 1960s she worked at the Bogalusa Community Medical Center and at the Green and Reedy Farm Supply Company in Franklinton, Louisiana. In 1960 she founded the Franklinton Kindergarten, which she owned and operated until kindergarten became a part of the public school system. During the 1970s she managed several apartment complexes in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and during the 1980s she helped manage the Long Beach Mini Warehouse in Long Beach, Mississippi owned by her sister, Evelyn Magee. She retired in 2005, at the age of 88.
In 2007 she moved to Lafayette, Louisiana. A lifelong gardener, she planted and tended a beautiful flower garden outside her apartment window in Lafayette.
She was a dedicated Christian, serving her church for her whole life. She began playing the piano in church as a young child and retired as a Sunday School teacher more than 80 years later. She continued to read the Bible daily for as long as she could – well past her 95th birthday.
She never lost her spirit of generosity, compassion, and sense of humor.
She is survived by her three children Wilton C. Corkern, Jr. and Mary Bruce Corkern, David E. Corkern and Jess Corkern, Ruth Anne Devillier and Reggie Devillier, her sisters Mildred Ellen Wiedenhoeft and Evelyn Magee, four grandchildren and spouses Jessica Woodworth and Oran, Molly Corkern and Fiance’ Richard Wagner, Sarah Pursel and Kyle and Jana Gosney and Caleb, five great grandchildren Bethany Woodworth, Abigail Woodworth, Gabriel Woodworth, Mattias Gosney, and Jaren Gosney and an expected great grandson.
She was preceded in death by her husband Wilton C. Corkern, Sr., her parents James Nevis Tynes and Ethel Juliann Crain Tynes, her sisters Lattice Sturtz, and her brother the Rev. Lochte Tynes.
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