Willie Pearl Ramsey passed away quietly at her home in Tucson, Arizona 0n the evening of December 23, 2016. She was born September 25, 1921 in Carbon, Texas. She was the daughter of W.M. "Toad" Medford and Mollie Medford. Evervone who knew her called her "Dude". It was a nickname given her by her father when she was a little girl and became the name she was known by for the rest of her life. Very few even knew what her real name was.

Dude grew up in Carbon where she met Bill Ramsey. They were married on August 1, 1940. It was a marriage that lasted almost 71 years. In the spring of 1942, they moved to the copper mining town of Morenci, Arizona where they raised a family and spent the next 38 years. Upon their retirement, they moved back to Eastland, Texas and stayed there until 1999 when they returned to Arizona to be nearer their grandsons. They spent their remaining years in Tucson.

She loved painting. She was an accomplished tole painter using such varied items as wooden shingles, stove lids, watering cans, cookie jars and old school desks as her canvas. Although she sold many of her tole paintings she was just as likely to give them to friends. She al so painted lifelike birds on canvas using oils and acrylics.

Dude was preceded in death by both her parents and her husband Bill. She is survived by sons, Terry (Jennie) of Tucson and Ron (Kay) of Alpine, Arizona, grandsons , James of Tucson and Scott (Marisa) and great-grandson Alex of Las Vegas, Nevada.