June 18, 1930 – July 16, 2026
Marjorie Eleanore Rugg (Kinkead) was born June 18, 1930, in Yreka, California.
Her birth mother, Margaret A. Pope, died soon after giving birth to Marjorie. She lived with her grandparents, Newton and Phoebe Kinkead, until 1935, when her Father, Seymour Kinkead, and his wife, Ruby May, took her back to live with them in Montague. She completed Grammar School in Montague before riding the bus to Yreka High School. She graduated from Yreka High in 1948 and immediately started working for Bank of America as a stenographer. While working there, she met and eventually married Bud D. Rugg, who owned the Richfield Service Station in Yreka. In 1955, she left Bank of America to work as the bookkeeper for Bud’s Richfield Station, and two years later, she gave birth to her only son, Lloyd D. Rugg. In 1960, she reignited her faith, attending Sunday morning services in Montague, before going with her Aunt Esther Fischer to gospel meetings. Marjorie was baptized in Prairie Creek at the Orick Convention in 1962. In 1970, she and Bud opened Shasta Valley Tire Service in Montague, where she continued to manage the books for the business, even after Bud passed in 1998. Her half-brother, Richard Kinkead, passed away a year later. After her son Lloyd’s untimely passing in 2013, Marjorie diligently maintained the books for the business until the Rugg family sold it later that year. Marjorie lived alone in Montague until 2023, when she moved to Lavender Hills in Redding to finish out the rest of her life surrounded by loving friends.
Marjorie is survived by her grandson, Thomas Rugg, and her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Rugg, as well as too many friends to count. Throughout her life, she stood as a shining example of the kindness and love we should all be so lucky to experience. She made friends wherever she went, and when she set her mind to something, little could stop her from reaching it. Faithful, determined, loving, kind, and genuine, Marjorie consistently put the needs of others ahead of her own. She attended Sunday services, gospel meetings, bible study, and special meetings consistently throughout her adult life, cementing her faith. It has been said that she would swim up the Klamath in the winter to make it to meetings, and those who know her well would agree.
Funeral services for Marjorie was at the Gazelle Grange.
Sourced: Girdner Funeral Chapel
