Ruth Erwin

MRS. RUTH ERWIN Mrs. Ruth Dillehay Erwin, 83, resident of Neeley Hollow Road, died Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at Williamson Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Thursday at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home with Rev. David McGregor and Rev. Eugene Barrett officiating. Burial will be in McCains Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Wednesday from 4- 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to McCains Cemetery Fund. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the daughter of the late Ralph Dillehay and Myrtle Dooley Dillehay. She was married to J. B. Erwin who preceded her in death on August 28, 2002. Mrs. Erwin was a member of the McCains Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Cumberland Presbyterian Women, and the Mynders Community Club. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Judy (Frank) Watson of Columbia; Mrs. Sherry (David) Graham of Mt. Juliet; one son, Dean (Joanne) Erwin of Lawrenceburg; one sister, Mrs. Myrtle Heusing of Springfield, Illinois; five grandchildren; three great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be Houston McCandless, Alan Foster, J. W. Foster, Robert Moore, Gary Montgomery, Ben Haynes, Pat G. Troope, Roger Toombs, Charles Dillehay, and Tony Sowell. Honorary pallbearers will be elders of McCains Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Gerald Martin, Monroe Lovell, Allen Fitzgerald, nephews and cousins.