Linda Nell Ruble, 62, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Nov. 13, 1940, in Atkins, Ark. She married Robert W. Ruble in Piggott, Ark., on Jan. 8, 1996.

She was a retired certified nurse's aide and was of the Baptist faith.

Survivors include her husband, four daughters, Tonia Prewitt of Houston, Miss., Deanna Wages of Cape Girardeau, Melinda Kay Haupt of Columbia, Mo., and Fawnda Matheny of West Frankfort, Ill.; a son, Joseph Edward Glass of Poplar Bluff; two stepsons, Clinton Ruble and Walter Curtis Ruble, both of Poplar Bluff; a brother, Thomas E. Eakin of St. Louis; 21 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be held at 7 p.m. today at the Cotrell Funeral Chapel in Poplar Bluff.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Gravel Hill Cemetery in Stoddard County.