Ruth Parsons Ryg (1911-2010)

RYG, PARSONS, MCCOY, KINKER, FOREMAN

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 3/11/2010 at 07:56:54

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, March 10, 2010.

Ruth Parsons Ryg, formerly of Slater, passed away Tuesday, March 9, at Madrid Home. Arrangements are pending with Soderstrum Riis Funeral Home, Slater.

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, March 11, 2010.

Ruth Parsons Ryg, 98, of Huxley, passed away March 9, 2010, at Madrid Home Community in Madrid. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 13, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Slater. Visitation is one hour prior to the service.

Ruth was born Dec. 24, 1911, to William Floyd and Emma (McCoy) Parsons in Des Moines. She was united in marriage to Clarence Ryg, of Slater, in 1942.

She was active in Rainbow Girls, Eastern Star, and American Legion. She graduated from Des Moines North High School in 1930 and Drake University with a bachelor’s degree in 1934. She was a pianist and accompanied many musical groups.

She began her teaching career at the high school in Mondamin, Iowa, from 1934-36. She was then employed at Slater High School in 1936, teaching commercial and math subjects until she retired in 1957. In her fourth year of teaching, she became the principal as well. While teaching, she coached a basketball team after the coach became ill with a heart attack.

She worked the summer months at Slater Branch College Bank from 1943-45 and full time at Slater State Bank from 1958-60.

She enjoyed life and had many hobbies, including doing handwork, making quilts and sewing lap robes and wheel chair bags for the VA.

Ruth and her husband, Clarence, wintered in Brownsville, Texas, and Mesa, Ariz., until they moved to Mesa in 1970. She moved back to Iowa in May 2002 and lived in an independent-living apartment at Madrid Home and later moved to Ballard Creek Assisted Living Community in Huxley in September 2004.

She is survived by one stepdaughter, Adrianna Kinker; two stepgrandchildren, Sandra Foreman (John) and David Kinker (Julie); and four step-great grandchildren.

Ruth will be missed by all who knew her. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and one stepson-in-law, Carrol.

Memorials may be given to Ballard Creek Assisted Living Community at Huxley, or Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Slater.

Soderstrum Riis Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.

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