Ruby Jewel Hardin

Ruby Jewel Hardin, 97, of Clarendon, passed away Monday, July 21, 2025, in Clarendon.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, July 24, 2025, at First Baptist Church in Silverton with Rev. G.J. Walton officiating.

Burial will be at 2:00 p.m. in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Viewing will be Wednesday at the funeral home.

Arrangements are under the care of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Ruby Jewel was born May 12, 1928, in Clarendon to Richard and Edna Jewel Yates Dingler. She married Warren Hardin on August 25, 1947, in Clarendon. A lifelong resident of Clarendon, she spent the last decade in Silverton before returning home last year.

Ruby was a devoted homemaker who found joy in gardening, baking and decorating cakes, sewing, and painting. She also loved playing 42 with her many friends. A woman of faith, she was a former member of the First Presbyterian Church in Clarendon and most recently a member of the First Baptist Church in Silverton.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Warren Hardin, in 1991; a brother, Richard Dingler Jr.; and two sisters, Joyce Watkins and Frances Grimland.

She is survived by her daughter, Paula Garvin and husband Lane of Silverton; her sisters, Jo Cowan of Perryton, Glenna Cash of Topeka, Kansas, and Catherine Cosper of Amarillo; her granddaughters, Brooke Whitworth of Silverton and Kurby Mitchell and husband Brandon of Wellington; three great-grandchildren, Landry Whitworth, Baron Mitchell, and Merick Mitchell; as well as several nieces and nephews.

The family requests that memorials be made to the Clarendon or Silverton Volunteer Fire Department, Citizens Cemetery Association, or the First Baptist Church Youth Group in Silverton.