The Norman Transcript
October 9, 1984
Ruth Brookhart McGuckin, Norman, the wife of Glenn McGuckin,
died early roday in her home.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the first Baptist Church with
Dr. Frank Robbins of Dallas, Texas, and the Rev. Travis Wiggins
officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery with Primrose
Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. McGUckin was born Oct. 25, 1907, on a farm near Apache to
Will and Maud Brookhart. As a small girl she moved with her parents
to a farm near Tonkawa. It was thefarm that her father and grandmother
had homesteaded in the Cherokee Strip during the Run of 1899. She
received her elementary education in or near Tonkawa. She graduated
from Northern Oklahoma College, attended Oklahoma Central State
University and Peabody College and then graduated with a B.S. degree
in education from the University of Oklahoma. At OU, she was a member
of Kappa Delta, an honorary sorority.
She taught English and art for many years in Tonkawa and Ponca City
and helped her mother rear John Armstrong from infancy to adulthood.
John was the son of her sister, Ermile who died when John was an infant.
She married Mr. McGuckin in Ponca City on Feb. 16, 1956 , and they lived
in Norman since that time.
Mrs. McGuckin was a prominent and active member in many horticulture
clubs, a talented flower arranger and an excellent horticultursit. She was
a member of the Tulip Garden Club, president of the Daffodil Club, past
president and the current flower show chairman of the Norman Council of
Garden Clubs, Inc. She also was a nationally accredied master flower show
judge and this past summer served as chairperson for the symposium held
by the Oklahoma Council of National Accredited Flower Show Judges.
Mrs. McGuckin was an active member of the First Baptist Church and
the Douglas Bible Club.
Survivors other than her husband are her foster son, a nephew, John
Armstrong of Hobbs, N.M.; a sister, Olive K.ittle of Garden Grove, Calif.;
a brother, Robert Brookhart of Tonkahwa; two stepsons, Alva McGuckin
of Albuquerque, N.M., and Roger McGuckin of Eugene, Ore.; six
grandchildre, Nancy, Mark and Scott McGuckin, John Dirk, Glenna
Ruth and Demita Armstrong; and a host of other relatives.
The family has designated the Wycliffe Bible Translator P.O. Box
2702, Huntington Beach. Calif., 92647, as appropriate for memorial
contributions.
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