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Note: SCHOOL: The schools Ruth Waters attended are Belle Mina, Bethel School, East Limestone School, and Tanner. These were all in Limestone County, Alabama.
BIRTH: Ilda Ruth Curnutt was born June 7, 1936 at the home of her parents, William Donald and Alcy Byrd Clayton Curnutt . They lived in Limestone County, Alabama.
BIRTH: Birth Certificate issued by the Registrar of Vital Statistics in Montgomery, Alabama
General: Ilda Ruth Curnutt married Abron Wayne Waters on December 25, 1954 in Iuka, Mississippi after meeting on a blind date 10 days before on December 15, 1954.
General: "Receipt for Electricity", First Power turned on, Aug 19, 1955. Wayne Waters, Rt. # 2, Moulton, Al.
General: "Reciept for Electricity", Power Turned on After Moving , November 14, 1962
General: "Reciept for Telephone" , New Contract, August, 1955, $15.00
Memories: IN MEMORY OF MOM June 20, 2004 By: Donna Waters Evans My Momma is, and always has been, the constant force of love in my life. As I remember my childhood, and even to the present, the strength of her love is still as strong and steady as ever even though she is gone. She was the one we ran to with scraped knees and busted hearts. She was there for us. Always. My life was a constant stream of love with morals and rules thrown in whenever they were needed. And often not wanted. She taught me that I would reap the benefits of what I sowed and pay the consequences of my actions. That right is right and wrong never will be. A job worth doing is worth doing right. Learn the lessons life teaches you and never make the same mistake twice. Our household was fun to grow up in. We were loud and rowdy, laughing and squabbling among ourselves. Our house was neat, our clothes starched and ironed, a talent I haven't quite mastered yet. We played cards, checkers, and Scrabble. And softball in the yard with all the neighborhood boys, with Mom right there, knocking the spit out of the ball, farther than most of the kids. We used to swipe Jell-o from the pantry and sneak out to eat it in secret. We�d come back indoors with red mouths and innocent faces and she wouldn�t say a word, she�d just grin. She knew. True Story Romances were a passion of ours which were very risqu� and racy to preteen girls. Grandmother Waters supplied them, much to the dismay of our Father. Mom knew and she never once revealed our hiding place. Saturday afternoons in the summer we had a family ritual. Roasting hotdogs over an open fire on the big ole flat rock at the edge of the woods. I remember shoe boxes full of Barbie clothes Mom had worked frantically to sew while we were at school and hidden when we were home for our Christmas gifts. Hours spent playing under an old coffee can, the bottom filled with holes and hung from the swing set with the water hose placed in the top. A shower of cold water for us to run thru in the hot summer sun. Every Easter, new dresses made with her own hands, frilly and lacy, with little white purses, shoes and hats to match. The dress she married in was pink, and she took that dress and cut it apart and made me a dress from it. I remember swimming in the farm pond, with us on one side, the cows on the other. Rolling down the terraces of sweet red clover, with Mom laughing at our antics. As we got older, our relationship changed. She became our chief confessor and our harbor in life�s storms. I remember her singing along with us to make whatever work we were doing go faster. We shared whatever chores had to be done, with her working along with us. She was there, urging us on, patting us on the back, correcting our mistakes, wiping our tears. She still is in our hearts. Her beauty had faded and her body weakened by time, but she is there in our memories. She was the mainstay in our family, the one constant we knew was always waiting for us at home. Mom left us a legacy. Of Faith, Hope and Love. I hope I can live up to it and pass the things she taught me on to my own children. The greatest lesson I guess I have ever learned from her is that a child , no matter what wrong they have committed, should always be loved just because.
MARRIAGE: My Mother and Daddy met on a blind date on December 15, 1954 and they married 10 days later in Iuka, Tishimingo County, Mississippi. He brought her home to his family in the middle of a family Christmas. She had to meet the entire family all at one time. All 11 children, inlaws, and cousins at one time. Can you imagine going to your new parents-in-law's for the first time and facing all those strangers? Not me!
DEATH: "SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX" Name: Ilda R. Waters Birth Date: 7 Jun 1936 Death Date:15 Jun 2004 Last Residence: Moulton, Lawrence, Alabama State Issued " Alabama 1954 SSN 416-48-1286
DEATH: "OBITUARY"; Decatur Daily; Published June 17, 2004 Ilda Ruth Curnutt Waters Funeral for Ilda Ruth Curnutt Waters, 68, of Moulton was to be today, June 17, 2004, at 2 p.m. at Parkway Funeral Home Chapel with O.D. Bowling officiating. Burial was to be in East Lawrence Memorial Gardens. Visitation was Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Waters died Tuesday, June 15, 2004, at Baptist Medical Center-Princeton. She was born June 7, 1936, in Limestone County to William Donald Curnutt and Alcy Byrd Clayton Curnutt. She was a homemaker. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, reading and crafts. Survivors include her husband, Abron Wayne Waters; five daughters, Vicki Waters, Donna Waters Evans, Teresa Waters Finley and Lana Waters, all of Moulton, and Tina Waters Tubb of Mount Hope; two brothers, William Donald Curnutt Jr. and Walter Curnutt, both of Athens; four sisters, Janice Gooch and Janet Curnutt, both of Athens, Mary Jean Grissom of Decatur and Patricia Moore of Muscle Shoals; nine grandchildren, Chane Crook, Duane Evans, Jeremy Evans, Josh Evans, Paul Radford, Amanda Borden, Brittney Tubb, Quinton Finley and Windi Evans; two stepgrandchildren, Cassie Finley and Zach Finley; and six great-grandchildren, Joey Evans, Nate Evans, Alex Evans, Christopher Evans, Kayla Latham and Lowen Borden. Pallbearers were to be Duane Evans, Josh Evans, Jeremy Evans, Chane Crook, Paul Radford and Zach Finley. Published in the Decatur Daily on 6/17/2004.
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