Ruth Elizabeth Givens McIlroy age 92, former teacher and homemaker of Bowling Green passed away Friday February 13, 2009 at her home.  Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m. Tuesday February 17, 2009 at the Second Baptist Church in Bowling Green with Rev. Don Amelung officiating.  Burial will be in the Bowling Green Cemetery.  Visitation will be held from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday at the Mudd-Veach Funeral Home in Bowling Green.

She was born April 30, 1916 in Fayette to Charles Edward and Ruth Smith Givens.  Mrs. McIlroy is survived by sons William Charles McIlroy and John Madison McIlroy Jr. and daughter Margaret McIlroy Goodin, their spouses, several grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Mrs. McIlroy was preceded in death, by John M. McIlroy, Sr., her husband of over 68 years on November 24, 2008, her parents, and her sister Margaret Givens Riggs.

She graduated from Central Methodist College before taking a position teaching in the Louisiana School District as a fourth grade teacher.

Mrs. McIlroy was a member of Chapter DA of PEO, Minerva Club, PTA, and was a Cub Scout Leader, serving in many capacities of each organization.  She was active in several philanthropic organizations including the March of Dimes and the United Way.  One of her most treasured associations was the Triple Cs, the Cocky Coquette Club.  Comprised of several women who grew up together in Fayette, the club began as a skating club when they were children and developed into the Triple Cs as they grew older.  The Triple Cs continued meeting, along with their husbands, until the ladies were well into their eighties.

She was a long time member of the Second Baptist Church of Bowling Green where she had served as a Sunday School teacher and VBS teacher.

Mrs. McIlroy met her husband at a local stable and continued a life long love of equestrian activities.  One of Mrs. McIlroy’s great joys was riding horse back on Maple Lane Farm, the family farm, near Dover which has been in the McIlroy family since 1854.

Serving as pallbearers will be Rex Bradley, Bob Grote, Paul Hill, Bob McKee, Ross McKinstry and Perry West.  Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Bill and Vicki Hart, Ed and Charlene Lawson, Marilyn Millan and Tapley McCune.

The family would ask that memorials be made to the Pike County Memorial Hospital Foundation.