Ruby Doris Clapper, 73, of Hewitt, passed away Wednesday morning, May 14, 2003 at Ridgecrest Retirement Center.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Friday, at OakCrest Funeral Home chapel, 4520 Bosque Boulevard. Burial will be in Waco Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday. A memorial videotape of Ruby's life created by OakCrest Funeral Home will be shown during the visitation.
Ruby was born July 31, 1929, in Lyford, Texas, to Henry and Vesta (Pierce) Whisenant. She was a retired underwriter from American Income Life. She was preceded in death by her husband, Everett Raymond Clapper, in 1995, and a daughter, Vivian Lee Clapper, in 1998.
She is survived by sons, Carroll Ray Clapper and wife Carla of Hewitt, Richard Russell Clapper and wife Kim of Saledo, and Richard Russell Clapper III of Hewitt; granddaughter, Jennifer Clapper of Waco; grandson, Jacob Clapper of Hewitt; brothers, Norman Whisenant of Wimberly and Carl Whisenant of Lorena; sisters, Lillie Cochran of Martindale and Edith Crisp of Kingsville; sister-in-law, Bettie Clapper of Waco; and niece, Dorothea Johnson of Waco.