Virginia Ruth Cardwell

Virginia Ruth Hopkins Cardwell April 20, 1919 – January 1, 2006 Virginia Ruth Hopkins Cardwell, 86, of Robinson, passed away January 1, 2006 in Waco. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 am on Thursday, January 5, 2006 at Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey Funeral Home with Rev. Lawrence C. Hopkins of Midlothian, her great nephew, presiding. Burial will be at 3:00 pm in the Richland Springs Cemetery. Ruth was born April 20, 1919 in Richland Springs to B. A. Hopkins and Fannie Burleson Hopkins. She was a graduate of Richland Springs High School and Howard Payne University. She married Maj. Cecil L. Cardwell, US Army, on July 4, 1942. Ruth and Cecil were stationed in Brazil, Alaska, Japan, California, and many other places in the US and Texas during his career in the Army and Civil Service. During this time, many of her nieces and nephews lived with them during the summers or while attending college. She was devoted to her parents, her husband, her brothers and sisters and her nieces and nephews all of her life. During their retirement years, Ruth and Cecil traveled across the United States in their motor home and belonged to several travel clubs which they enjoyed. Ruth was an avid bridge player and enjoyed playing in several different bridge clubs in Waco. She was a member of Meadowbrook Baptist Church in Robinson, a fifty year member of the Richland Springs Order of the Eastern Star and a fifty year member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; three brothers, Edward Hopkins of Richland Springs, Clayton Hopkins of San Angelo and Carl Hopkins of Village Mills; two sisters, Irene Hopkins Pearce of Richland Springs and Gladys Hopkins Gardner of Hurst; one nephew and three nieces. She is survived by her sister, Alice Hopkins Bragg of Monahans, and two brothers, B. A. Hopkins of Dallas and Davis Hopkins and wife, Mary Lou of Grand Prairie, twelve nephews and three nieces and several great nieces and nephews and her special friends Paul and Joyce Hopkins of Robinson. The family wishes to give special thanks to the staff at St. Catherine’s and to the Emergency Room staff at Providence Hospital for all their care given to Ruth over the last year. The family invites you to leave a message or memory in our “Memorial Guestbook” at www.wilkirsonhatchbailey.com. Wilkirson-Hatch-Bailey