of Benton, AR

March 15, 1936 - December 10, 2016

Ruthie Irene Blake, age 80, of Benton, passed away Saturday, December 10, 2016 at Baptist Health Medical Center in Little Rock. She was born in Bauxite on March 15, 1936 to the late Samuel D. and Annie Lois Jones Lattin. She was a member of First Pentecostal Church in Bryant and a retired CNA.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Vernon Blake and one grandson, Tylor Wright.

She is survived by her eight children, Allen, Vernon, Stephen, Rodney, Robert, and Tresia Tucker, Martha Hughes, and Barbara Morgan; twenty-six grandchildren; forty-five great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; numerous other relatives, and friends.

The family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00 p.m., Wednesday, December 14, 2016 in the chapel of Roller-Ballard Funeral Home in Benton (501-315-4047).

Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Thursday, December 15, 2016 at the funeral home with Bro. Jerry Whitley officiating. Interment will follow at 1:00 p.m. at Buckville Cemetery at Lake Ouachita in Montgomery County. Serving as pallbearers will be Jason Blake, Kristopher Hughes, Timothy Hughes, Zachary Morgan, Dustin Blake, and Brent Blake. Honorary pallbearer is David Blake.

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