Nina Ruth Drake

Kansas City, Mo. — Funeral services for Nina Ruth Drake, 90, Claycomo, Mo., will be at 10 a.m. Monday at McGilley Antioch Chapel, 3325 N.E. Vivion Road, Kansas City, Mo. Burial will follow in Brown Cemetery in Gallatin, Mo.
Mrs. Drake died Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Mo.
She was born Jan. 20, 1919, near Amistad, N.M., the daughter of Otto E. and Nantie H. Long.
She married Claude L. Drake on Nov. 11, 1945, in Gallatin. He died May 22, 1995.
Mrs. Drake was a homemaker and a member of Winnwood Baptist Church in North Kansas City, Mo.
Survivors include three sons, Robert, Lawrence, Daniel, Los Lunas, N.M., and Charles, Claremore, Okla.; a sister, Lydia Bridges, Albany, Mo.; 11 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
The family will meet friends from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.
The family suggests memorials to the church or the American Heart Association, sent in care of the chapel.