Ruth LaFern Heffington, 80, of Marble Falls died Sept. 19, 2015
Ruth LaFern Heffington, a longtime resident of Marble Falls, died 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. She and Lyndon started Heffington Services in the early ’70s. For the last 20 years, Ruth 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 who 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 daughter Isabel; daughter and son-in-law Sheryl and Karl Westerman and 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 preceded in death by her father and mother; infant son, Dave Lyndon Heffington Jr.; and brother and sister-in-law Albert and Mary Jane Riley.
A service is 10 a.m. Sept. 28 at Fellowship Baptist Church with burial following 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 by Clements Wilcox Funeral Home, 1805 U.S. 281 North in Marble Falls, (830) 693-4373. Go to www.clementswilcoxfuneralhome.com to offer condolences.