Extracted from The Hope Star (Hope, AR)
Wednesday, May 13, 1936

Ruth Garland Dies, Funeral Thursday

Services to [be] Held at Hope First Baptist Church at 2 o'Clock

Miss Ruth Garland of Hope, faculty member of Carlisle High School the past two years, died at 7 p. m. Tuesday in a Little Rock hospital. She had been ill 10 days.

Miss Garland was formerly a teacher in the Blevins High School, going to Carlisle two years ago.

The body was returned to the home of a brother, Lee Garland, on the Hope-Blevins highway. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday from First Baptist church, with burial in Rose Hill cemetery.

Pallbearers will be students of Carlisle High School.

Miss Garland is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Bernard Clore of Waveland, Ind.; and Miss Esther Garland of Hope; two brothers, Lee Garland of Hope, and the Rev. Loyd Garland of Springfield, Ga.