Mary Ruth Rainey

Mary Ruth Feemster Rainey passed away August 27, 2017 at the age of 91 years. She was born to Tom P. Feemster and Eula Askew Feemster on July 3, 1926 in Idabel, Oklahoma. The youngest of five children, she grew up in Idabel and Broken Bow in McCurtain County with two sisters and two brothers. She later worked in Tulsa at the Douglas Aircraft Company. Ruth met her future husband, Lieutenant Charles Homer Rainey in Tulsa.   After Ruth's marriage in August 1945 to Homer, the couple settled in Texarkana, Texas living there for 13 years with their three daughters. The family moved to Shreveport in 1959.   For many years Ruth was a full time loving wife and mother to her family, but later returned to the work force as a dental assistant to Dr. Jarvis Waller, a children's dentist. After retirement in 1984, Ruth devoted her time to her hobby of archaeology. She had a lifetime interest and passion for the study of Native American life in the places she lived. She assisted 25 years as a field secretary to the Northwest Louisiana Archaeological Society recording sites in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.   Charles Homer Rainey, her husband of 29 years, preceded Ruth in death March, 1975. Her survivors include her three daughters, Carolyn Inselmann of Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Elaine Prather and husband Randy, of Broussard, Louisiana; Nancy Johnson and husband Mark of Acworth, Georgia; eight grandchildren, Jordan Inselmann-Brugger and Jared Inselmann, Erin Prather-Smiley, Greer, Clay and Kyle Prather and Rachel and Sydney Johnson; and five great-grandchildren.   Ruth was a member of First Baptist Church in Shreveport. She is laid to rest in Salem Cemetery in Bloomburg, Texas alongside her husband, Homer.   The family wishes to thank the staff and the nurses at Montclair Park Assisted Living and Memory Care Center and Hospice of Shreveport/Bossier for the kind hearted care and compassionate attention given to our mother.