Ruda V. Johnson

Ruda V. Hartness was born to John Henry Hartness and Ruda Priscilla Lee Hartness on August 24, 1922 in the town of Perrin in Jack County, Texas. She was the youngest of seven children. She attended high school in Dallas, Texas where she married her high school sweetheart, Clyde Therman Johnson on November 25, 1942. She passed from this life to her heavenly reunion on March 8, 2013. Ruda was part of a team. She put C.T. through school by doing typing at home, she reared their children,  she helped C.T. write books and was his inspiration for songwriting. When C.T. taught school she served right along side him in the business office or a classroom. Their grandchildren say they never saw one of them without the other. They enjoyed traveling overseas and working together, even in the kitchen. Ruda was a member of The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Ruda was a woman with an exceptionally sweet spirit who was devoted to God, her beloved C.T., to her children, and to her church family. We are all blessed to have her in our lives.

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