Billie Ruth Gaines-Law

Billie Ruth Gaines-Law, 66, died Thursday, November 18, 2010, in Clarendon.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, November 21, 2010, at the First Baptist Church in Clarendon with Elder Jeff Riles, Elder Roy Williams, Elder Harry Williams, and Elder Ella Bowser, officiating. Interment followed in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Services were under the arrangement of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Billie Ruth was born August 3, 1944, in Gilmer, Texas, to Leroy Lee and Rosie Lee Childs Wilson. She married Alton Gaines, Sr., on August 23, 1962, in Clarendon.

She has been a lifelong resident of Clarendon where she worked at Western Skies and Lowe‘s. She loved her family, was a dedicated mother and grandmother, and was known as the neighborhood mom. She loved gardening and all else that God blessed her with. She was a member of the True Church of God in Christ in Clarendon.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her stepfather; her husband, Alton Gaines, Sr. on April 25, 1974; her son, Ben Gaines; and three sisters.

Survivors include her six sons, Alton Gaines, Jr., and wife Gina of Clarendon, Johnnie Gaines of Clarendon, Danny Gaines and wife Angie of Clarendon, Randy Gaines of Amarillo, Brent Gaines and wife Tasha of Amarillo, and Richard Gaines of Clarendon; her daughter, Glenda Wilson and husband Billy of Clarendon; her brother, Dale Childs of Amarillo; five sisters, Dorothy Hawthorne and Othella Bowie, both of Amarillo, Norma Lee and Estella Mae both of Orange County, Texas, and Carolyn Polk of Amarillo; 21 grandchildren; and several great grandchildren.