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Ruthie's obituary

Ruthie Ann Hall passed away March 7th 2018 suddenly after a brief 2 year fight with cancer. She is proceeded in death by her mother, Clara Griffith, father Charles Griffith, and 1 brother Vernon Griffith. She is survivied by 2 children son Charles Griffith and daughter TeddiJilton, 4 brothers Charles, Harold Ray, Erwin Dale, and James Griffith and 2 sisters Ruthy Violet and Bettie Jo, several nieces, nephews, cousins, and her prideful grandchildren 2 of which whom lived with her Vernon Jilton and Antonia Swann. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri raised in Newark, New Jersey, and lived in Tennessee where she become a small town business owner of 3 different business 1of which successful and well known just about everywhere, "Mom's Taxi", American Breeders Registery, and Joker's Lounge. Ruthie was very out going, after a days work you could find her at Nappy's, Johnson City's oldest bar, where she'd from there get a cab home and end her night with one last cold beer.

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Ruthie "Buckwheat" Griffith Jilton Hall