Graveside services for Mary Ruth Pool, 92, Clinton resident will be held 1:00 pm, Saturday, April 8, 2023, in the Texhoma Cemetery in Texhoma, OK, officiated by family. The burial is under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home.

There will be a visitation at the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home, 8:00 am till 8:00 pm, Wednesday, April 5, 2023, and Thursday, April 6, 2023.

Mary Ruth Steele Pool was born July 7, 1930, the tenth child, to Herman and Madeline (Nipper) Steele in McLeansboro, IL and passed away Sunday, April 2, 2023, in the Cordell Memorial Hospital in Cordell, OK.

Mary was raised in McLeansboro, IL where she attended and graduated high school. She married Arvil Winston “A.W.” Pool on September 21, 1946, in Morganfield, KY. She worked in a movie theatre selling popcorn and met the love of her life, Arvil Winston “A.W.” Pool and they were married on September 21, 1946, in Morganfield, KY. They started a drilling company in 1952 and moved the business to the Panhandle of Oklahoma in 1965, where they also farmed. In 1980, they moved the business to Clinton, OK and opened a machine shop. She was a member of the Baptist Faith, she loved animals, going shopping and spending time with her grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, A.W. Pool and daughter, Christy Lynn Pool, and son, Greg Pool, nine brothers and sisters, Oakley Steele, Otha Steele, Orpah lea Stelle Bond, Ora Newton Steele, James Monroe Steele, Ruby Alice Steele, Williams, Ella Mae Steele Harre, Helen “Eldora Steele Townson, and Lillian Steele.

She is also survived by two sons, Winston Pool and wife Marie, and Keith Pool and wife Nancy, and 10 grandchildren, Jason Pool, Tucker Pool, Chris Pool, Jeremy Pool, Ty Pool, Bradley Pool, Jake Pool, Caleb Pool, Ethan Pool, and Lacey Hugh, and 16 great-grandchildren.