Ruby Lee Stoerkel

Ruby Lee (Cargle) Stoerkel , 86, left for heavenly home on December 31, 2013. She was born on April 17, 1927 in rural Shelby County, Texas to Bruce Allen and Ada Emma (Fausett) Cargle, being one of 10 children. She is survived by sons: Robert E. Lee, Jr., and wife Firmine, Donald Glenn; daughter, Linda Sue Traylor and husband Sammy; sisters: Dovie (Cargle) Wilkerson, Avis (Cargle) Gandy and husband Bill; 13 nieces, 15 nephews; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren (with one on the way), three step-great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Robert (Edward) Lee, Sr.; parents; sisters: Inez (Cargle) Olive and Lois (Cargle) Dean; brothers: Ives J. Cargle. Arlie Cargle, Travis Cargle, Cecil Bailey Cargle, and Troy Cargle. Ruby was a wife, homemaker and excellent cook (pecan pie, Robert, Jr.’s favorite, was her specialty), She taught Robert, Jr., how to read and write before he entered the first grade, which made him very good speller in his first year of school. As a child herself, she picked cotton and cut wood on a farm in East Texas. As a teenager, she recalled a nearby WWII German prisoner-of-war camp in Shelby County by which she would walk on the way to town; the prisoners would gather to watch the girls walk by, and Ruby was a pretty teenage girl. Her family moved to Houston and she attended W.G. Smiley school in Northeast Houston. She was babysitting for her brother, Arlie and his wife Mary when she was introduced to Robert and married on March 1 of 1947. During her life, she enjoyed paint-by-number, embroidery, quilting, needlepoint and gardening, and taking care of her home and family. She believed in God, but was not partial in her church of choice. She was born Methodist, but had attended the Baptist and Lutheran churches, and watched First Methodist, Second Baptist and Lakewood Churches on television. A Catholic Chaplin ministered to Mom in her last stay in St. Luke’s hospital. The family wishes to thank Dr.’s John T. Paulsel, Robert Card, and Charles A. Garcia, and those at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Methodist Hospital, Memorial Hermann Hospital, East Houston Medical Center, and Park Manor Cypress Station Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation for the care and concern shown for our loved one over the years and especially the past five months, with noted gratitude to LifePointe Hospice for the two days they supported Mom and the family in a very special way just before she passed. Funeral Service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Monday, January 6, 2014 with visitation beginning at 1:00 p.m. at Brookside Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Brookside Memorial Park. Fellowship and refreshments following the interment will be held at Brookside’s Hospitality Room in the Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, those who wish may make a donation to the American Heart Association, the Methodist, Baptist or Lutheran church or other church of your choice, or your chosen charity.