Buck Ruff

Visitation: Sunday, August 28, 2005 from 3:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. at the Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home

Funeral Service: Monday, August 29, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. at Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home

Interment: Rozet Cemetery

Visitation for Marion Russell Buck Ruff will be held on Sunday, August 28, 2005 from 3:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. at the Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Monday, August 29, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. at Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with Marty Crump of the Family Life Church officiating. Interment will follow at the Rozet Cemetery and luncheon at the Rozet Bar & Cafe.

Marion Buck Ruff age 67, Rozet resident, died on August 24, 2005 at the Campbell County Memorial Hospital surrounded by his family.

Buck was born December 7, 1937 in Gillette, Wyoming to Alfred Pug and Mae (Morris) Ruff. He graduated from the Rozet High School in 1956. August 31, 1956 he married the love of his life Norma Jean Duvall in Custer, South Dakota. Together they had four children. Buck drove truck, sheared sheep, cut timber and worked in the oil field. Buck & Norma owned and operated the Rozet Bar from 1984 to the present. He loved to play poker, golf, hunt, fish, and arguing with his grandchildren.

He is survived by his wife of almost forty-nine years Norma; mother-in-law Jessie Duvall; two children: Diane (Bobbie) Husted, and Justin Jake (Lu) Ruff. Four grandchildren: Brandie Jeffress, Trey Husted, Trevor Ruff, and Nolan Ruff; two great grandchildren: Logan Jeffress, and Lana Jeffress; four brothers: Dennis, David, Butch, and Mike; one sister: Sharon; and many nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles.

He is preceded in death by two children: Alfred Carroll, and Peggy Jo; his parents and father in-law Carroll Duvall.
A memorial has been established in Bucks name to benefit the Future Farmers of America scholarship fund.

Donations and condolences may be sent in care of the Stevenson-Wilson Funeral Home, 210 W. 5th St., Gillette, Wyoming 82716 or via the internet at www.stevensonandsons.com.