Ruth Haynes Tuckett was born in a two room home in Sugar City, Idaho on March 16, 1927. She grew up on a farm on the Teton Canal where she attended all 12 years of school and graduated from Sugar Salem High School in 1945. Her mother passed away when she was only 6 years old. Her brother enlisted in the Navy just before World War II, leaving Ruth and her younger sister to help on the farm. With a team of horses, they mowed peas and hay, hand pitched the hay onto wagons and helped stack it in the farm yard. They weeded potatoes, topped and loaded sugar beets onto a wagon to be hauled to the Sugar City factory to be refined. In 1946 she married WW II veteran Ray Tuckett in Butte, Montana. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. She and her husband lived on a cattle ranch in Dillon, Montana. They moved from there to Cave Falls, Idaho to work at Ray's brother's sawmill. They then lived in Harlem, Montana where Ray farmed and Ruth worked at the Chinook Sugar Refinery in Havre. Once again, they moved to Kearny, Missouri where Ray operated a dairy and later moved back to Rexburg, Idaho where they purchased a home and Ray helped construct the Madison Memorial Hospital. A few years after that, they closed up the house and moved to Harrah, Washington where they farmed on the Yakima Indian Reservation. Ray and Ruth were both active in the community helping with the annual Sugar Beet Festival. Ruth served as American Legion Auxiliary president. During this time, veterans were given preference for Columbia Basin farmland and Ray chose Unit 180, Block 18. The family worked to remodel a duplex which they moved onto the farm from Hanford. They cleared sagebrush and laid out hand lines for irrigation. Ruth belonged to Basin Homemakers and was active in the PTA. She later worked at Lamb Weston–ConAgra for 31 years, retiring on her 80th birthday. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and served in various callings. Ruth was known for her generosity and spirit of tenacity. Her home was always open and Ray boasts her apple pie was the best to be had. Ruth loved to work in her yard and proof of her green thumb could be found in her prized hollyhocks, peonies and irises. Ruth passed peacefully on November 7, 2014. She was preceded in death by her parents Isaac and Agnes Haynes, one brother Joe Haynes, two sisters Juanita Blake and Nell Zollinger, and one grandchild Tammy Goodnow. Ruth is survived by her husband of 68 years Ray Tuckett, five children ReNee (Henry) Goodnow, Orem UT, Randy (Sherri) Tuckett, Draper UT, Riki Jo (Lars) Rasmussen, Fillmore UT, Ruthann (David) Kezar, Toppenish WA, Ronald (Barbara) Tuckett, McMinnville OR, sister Grace Devins, Idaho Falls ID, 26 grandchildren and 52 great grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Basin City LDS Church, 160 Bailie Blvd.