Loretta Ruth

BELL, BOST, HATHAWAY, RUTH, WAGONER

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 2/25/2006 at 13:50:33

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, March 30, 1994

LORETTA RUTH,PERU

Loretta Ruth, 66, of Peru, died March 24, 1994 in her home. The body was donated to the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Science in Des Moines.

She was born October 10, 1927 in Caddo Mills, Texas, to George Washington and Mae (Hathaway) Bost. She married Hugh Ruth in Rockwell, Texas, on October 10, 1953. She was a homemaker living in Peru for the past 27 years. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star in Winterset and the American Legion Auxiliary.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother and two sisters.

Surviving relatives include her husband; two sons, Joseph H. Ruth of Plymouth, Maine, and William J. Ruth of Lakeside, Calif.; one brother, Horace R. Bost of Ridgecrest, Calif.; two sisters, Eunice Wagoner and husband Glen of Greenville, Texas, and Dorothy Bell and husband William of Lone Oak, Texas; and four grandchildren.