NEWELLTON — Ruth T. Wade died Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at Olive Branch Senior Care Center in Tallulah. She was 81.

Mrs. Wade was born in Meridian and had lived in Tensas Parish for three years. She was a retired cafeteria employee of the Madison Parish School System and a member of Primitive Baptist Church.

Survivors include a grandson, Chris Cannon of Winnsboro, La.; and two great-grandsons. 

Services were at 11 a.m. today at Floral Hill Memory Gardens in Pearl, Miss., under the direction of Crothers-Glenwood Funeral Home of Tallulah.