Ruth Ellen Morton, 04 Aug 1923 - 02 Sept 2015

MORTON, LANGE, BARTLES, DENNY, GENTZ, SERBOUSEK

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 10/15/2015 at 16:01:55

Ruth Morton

Ruth Ellen Morton entered into eternal rest Wednesday, Sept. 2, after a well-fought battle with congestive heart failure.

Services were Tuesday, Sept. 8, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Cedar Rapids. Burial is at Cedar Memorial Cemetery, Cedar Rapids. Visitation was at the church. Memorials may be contributed to Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, or the ALS Foundation.

Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, is in charge of arrangements.

Ruth Ellen Lange was born on Aug. 4, in Scotch Grove, Iowa, the daughter of Fred Lange and Anna Bartles Lange. She received her education in the Scotch Grove area schools and later attended cosmotology school in Cedar Rapids. It was there that she met the love of her life, Donald Morton. They were united in marriage on May 23, 1948 at St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church in Monticello.

Ruth and Don made their home in Cedar Rapids during all of their 65 years together. Ruth worked as a hairdresser, homemaker, and did babysitting in her home, before becoming part of the cafeteria staff at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids for 32 years.

She was a longtime member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church. Ruth’s greatest joys were caring for her family and cooking. No one ever went home hungry from her house, or without some chocolate chip cookies.

Ruth was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Donald, in 2013, a brother in infancy, and a brother Vernon, daughter-in-law Pamela Morton, and granddaughter Rachel Denny.

Surviving to remember her are daughter Julieanne (Brian) Gentz of Ottumwa; sons Douglas (Nancy) Morton of Brookings, S.D., and Thomas (Patricia) Morton of Centennial, Colo.; 13 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and a sister Joyce Serbousek of Marion.

“Of all the gifts that life has to offer, a loving mother is the greatest of them all.”

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.klosterfuneralhome.com .

Journal Tribune, 09 Sept 2015, pg 5
The Gazette, 06 Sept 2015, 12a