VIOLET RING

IOLA, Kan.- Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Konantz Warden Funeral Home in Lamar, Mo. for Violet Marguerite (Sprouls) Ring, 93, who died Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, in Iola, with her family by her side. Interment will be at Nashville Cemetery in Nashville, Mo.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, at the Bible Fellowship Church in Iola.

The obituary may be viewed and condolences sent online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include two sons, Gary Ring and wife Judy, Granby, Mo. and Tim Ring and wife Marsha, rural Liberal, Mo.; a daughter, Joy Ring Westervelt, Iola; 10 grandchildren, Mindy, Tracy, J.C., Tod, Corey, Lori, Heather, Rauchel, Kelly and Vernon Lee; 24 great-grandchildren, Chantel, Josh, Britney, Hope, Faith, Asher, Sheldon, Braden, Noah, Jacob, Wyatt, Griffin, Jolee, Tristan, Lesleigh, Alexia, Anya, Ashlyn, Jace, Lauren, Lilly, Caleb, Seth and Arianna; one great-great-grandchild, Trinity; one sister, Shirley Cook, St. Louis, Mo.; one sister-in-law, Laverne Sprouls, Pittsburg and several beloved nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Vernon; a brother, Marion Sprouls and a sister, Vera Caruthers.

Mrs. Ring was born Dec. 3, 1925, in rural Oakton, Mo., to Bert Andrew and Nellie Belle (Hininger) Sprouls. She was a 1943 graduate of Lamar High School. She had worked in Lamar, Mo. at the ration board during World War II, until her marriage to Vernon Ring in 1944. Also rearing her children, she was a housekeeping supervisor at the Lamar Hospital, retiring after 20 years. Upon her husband’s death, she moved to Iola to be near her daughter.