Ruth Gupton Angus

View Video TributeView Funeral WebcastView Graveside ServiceMrs. Margaret Ruth Gupton Angus, 96, well known Columbia restaurant owner, died Thursday, February 2, 2012, at NHC Hillview after a short illness. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at Mooresville Methodist Church with Rev. Malcomb Patton officiating. Burial will follow in Bryant Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Saturday from 3:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. until time of service at the church. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the daughter of the late Grover Cleveland Gupton and Beulah Belle Mathis Gupton. On December 29, 1939 she married Stewart Angus who preceded her in death December 2, 1964. Mrs. Angus started her cooking career when her husband joined the military and she traveled on the train with him and cooked on the Base in Dothan, Alabama. After the military she and her husband owned and operated Angus Grocery Store in Mooresville and she also cooked for Mooresville School until moving to Columbia in 1963 when she and her husband opened Angus Café. When Mr. Angus died in 1964 she continued to run the Café until she sold it in 1976. She then worked for Bobby Pott's Pit Bar-B-Que until retirement. After she retired she continued to work for Service America and cooked for Union Carbide and General Electric. Mrs. Angus was a member of Mooresville Methodist Church and Craft Memorial United Methodist Church. Survivors include a daughter, Anna Laura Angus (C.Wayne) Pogue of Columbia; son, Danny Stewart Angus of Columbia; grandchildren, Jegetta Angus (Keith) Hord, Jecinda Angus (Dean) Johnson, David Stewart Pogue, Emily Ruth Pogue all of Columbia and Adam Garner (Ava) Pogue of Jackson; great-grandchildren, Ambria Hord, Karalea Hord, Hannah Johnson, Julia Johnson, Elizabeth Anne Pogue all of Columbia; two nieces, Linda Gupton of Lewisburg, Joyce (Dr. John) Patton of Meridian, Mississippi; and a nephew, Don Jeter of Lewisburg. Pallbearers will be Keith Hord, Dean Johnson, David Pogue, Samuel S. Curtis, Bobby Hyle, Don Jeter, Earl Cathey, Bobby Potts and Mike Thurman.