Ruth E. Cole 1912-1992

COLE, MAXWELL

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/7/2012 at 00:37:11

Ruth Cole
Estherville – Services for Ruth E. Cole, 79, will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Chapel in Estherville with Pastor Mauritz Peterson officiating. Interment will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. She died Tuesday, May 26, 1992 at Good Samaritan Center.

Friends may call from 11 a.m. until time of service on Friday.

She was born July 2, 1912 at Estherville, the daughter of Bedford and Ethel (Maxwell) Cole and graduated from Estherville High School. She remained single, and lived in Estherville all her life. She was employed by Northwestern Bell Telephone Company for 33 years. She was a resident of Valley Vue Care Center and later Good Samaritan Center in Estherville.

She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Telephone Pioneers of America.

She is survived by three nieces and two nephews, and was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters and two brothers. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, May 28, 1992)