Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Thursday, April 22, 2004

Ruth Adele Langley Winn
(Mrs. C. H. Winn)

SHREVEPORT, LA -- Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth L. Winn, 90, of Shreveport will be held at 10:00 AM, Friday, April 23, 2004 in the chapel at Forest Park Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Forest Park Cemetery. Officiating will be Reverend Sonny Simpson of Willow Point Baptist Church assisted by Mr. Wallace Stanberry.

The family will receive friends on Thursday, April 23, 2004 between the hours of 5:00 and 7:00 PM.

Mrs. Winn was born on Friday, July 13, 1913 in Natchitoches, LA to John and Ollie Langley. She has resided in Shreveport since 1955. She was a graduate of Peason High School and attended Normal College in Natchitoches and later graduated when the school had become Northwestern State College. She taught in various Louisiana schools beginning in Cypress, and going to Ajax, Claiborne Elementary in Shreveport and Judson Elementary. She retired after 41 years in the public school system and then taught at Baptist Christian for two years before retiring for good. She was active for years in the nursery of Lakeshore Baptist Church and served faithfully for many years at Willow Point Baptist Church. She was also a pink lady at the old P&S Hospital until it closed.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Cecil Hubert Winn and four sisters.

She is survived by son Cecil and wife Diane of Benton, LA and son Clint of Shreveport/Bossier, granddaughters Julie and husband Tom Burnbow of Shreveport, Stephanie and husband Chris Hammons of Dallas, and Amy and husband Brad Winters of Nashville, TN, great grandchildren Abby, Tally and Rachel Turnbow and Kyle and Ryan Winters, and a host of nieces and nephews.

Shortly before her death the following written testimony was found in her Bible:
I was about nine years old when I took Jesus as my Lord and Savior. It was during a revival meeting at our Church. I was sitting with my mother when I went down to talk with the minister. I don't remember his name, but I remember that he was crippled in one leg. My pastor's name was Ricks. The Baptists and Methodists shared the building. The Baptist had one Sunday and the Methodist the next. Most of us went every Sunday. After I was baptized I gave up some of the things I was doing like going to the movies. I love to play the religious songs on our record player. “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” was one of my favorites. I was very careful to not do anything that I thought was wrong. As the years passed and I became a teenager I did many things that I should not have done. I was always aware that this was true and was sorry and asked forgiveness for these things. As I grew older I grew closer to the Lord. I taught Sunday school and was director of the Sunday school. Our churches were usually very small. I even led the singing at times and belonged to the WMU. When I began teaching, I tried to guide the boys and girls in the Way that the Lord directed me. As I grew older I continued to draw nearer to the Lord and tried to be guided and directed by the Holy Spirit. “All things work together for good for those who love the Lord and are called according to His purpose.”

Pallbearers will be Chris Hammons, Lloyd Williams, Rodney Walton, Buddy Thompson, Tom Turnbow, Ron Powell, Dan Adams, and Al Baker.

The family wishes to thank Drs. Richard Haynie, Lawrence Drexler, Thomas Reilly, and Murali Srnivasan for their compassionate care over the years. Also gratitude is due nurses Scott Davis, Darrell Wilson and Terri Creamer for special kindnesses during emergency room and ICU visits at Willis Knighton. Thanks also to the staff of Heritage Manor of Bossier City for their care and to the Odyssey Healthcare for recent hospice care.

The family suggests memorials be made to Willow Point Church Building Fund or Cypress Baptist Church Building Fund.

Forest Park Funeral Home
and Cemeteries 221-7181