Ruth LaFern Heffington
Ruth LaFern Heffington
Sept. 2, 1935~Sept. 19, 2015
Ruth LaFern Heffington, longtime resident of Marble Falls, died Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, with her family by her side.
She was born to Paul James and Beulah Violet Riley on Sept. 2, 1935.
She graduated from Marble Falls High School in 1954 and married the love of her life, Dave Lyndon Heffington, in 1956. He preceded her in death.
She and Lyndon started Heffington Services in the early 1970s.
For the last 20 years, Ruth has owned and operated Ruth’s Business Service, where so many Hill Country residents and businesses knew they could count on her for careful and thoughtful bookkeeping and tax preparation.
All who knew Ruth remember her for her dedication to friends and family.
She was a wonderful daughter, sister, aunt, mother, grandmother and friend to so many. “Gramma’s house” was the meeting place for her children, grandchildren and their friends.
For the last 30 years, she attended countless band and choir concerts, football games and pep rallies, gymnastics meets and theater productions in support of her granddaughters.
To them and to so many others, she was more than a grandmother – she was their second mother, the one that was always there to support and encourage them.
The community also knew Ruth and her late husband, Lyndon, as model citizens and business owners. They built their business, never losing sight of the community they served. They treated their customers like family and, through their businesses, made Marble Falls a better community in which to live.
Ruth is survived by: her son, David Heffington, and his daughter, Isabel; daughter and son-in-law, Sheryl and Karl Westerman, and their daughters, Kelsey Westerman and fiancé Lloyd Blaine, Kirsten Lewis and husband, Chase, Faith Westerman and Karoline Westerman; step-grandson, Beau Jones; sister and brother-in-law, Jo and Bill Manno; sisters- and brothers-in-law Patsy Gray of Waco, Leslie Dwayne and Betty Jo Heffington and Jack and Shirley Rogers, all of Marble Falls, and many nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by: her parents, an infant son, Dave Lyndon Heffington, Jr., and a brother and sister-in-law, Albert and Mary Jane Riley.
A funeral service honoring Ruth will be held at Fellowship Baptist Church at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 28. Burial will follow at Smithwick Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made in memory of Ruth Heffington to Uniting Against Lung Cancer at: www.unitingagainstlungcancer.org/donate.
Arrangements are under the direction of Clements Wilcox Funeral Home in Marble Falls, which offers the ability to send condolences to the family using the online site: www.clementswilcoxfuneralhome.com.
