BEYMER, Ruth E. (1919-2012)

BEYMER

Posted By: Don Boucher (email)
Date: 7/30/2012 at 07:27:22

Obituary from The Des Moines Register newspaper, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA on 7-30-2012:

Services for Ruth E. Beymer, 93, who passed away Saturday, July 28, 2012 at The Village in Indianola, will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 1 at Trinity United Presbyterian Church in Indianola. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services on Wednesday at the church. Burial will follow in the Indianola I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald Beymer in 2003 and brother, Raymond Harris in 2011. Ruth is survived by her children, Jean Corbin, Ann (Mike) Bock, and Bob (Cheryl) Beymer; five grandchildren, Karen Corbin (Kathleen Cahill), Joe (Kim) Bock, David (Kathie) Bock, Dan (Jane) Bock, and Amanda (Dietrich) Flesch; seven great-grandchildren.

Memorials may be given to Trinity United Presbyterian Church, The Good Shepherd Fund at The Village or Warren County Habitat For Humanity. Online condolences may be made at www.overtonfunerals.com .

Obituary from the Overton Funeral Home web site (www.overtonfunerals.com) on 7-30-2012:

Services for Ruth Elizabeth Beymer, the daughter of Clark Hemingway and Ethel (Cameron) Harris, will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, August 1, 2012 at Trinity United Presbyterian Church in Indianola. Visitation will be held one hour prior to services at the church. Burial will follow in the Indianola I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
When she was six, her family moved to her grandfather’s farm west of Mitchellville, IA. where she grew up and was married, and where her only brother Raymond was born.
Ruth was a graduate of Mitchellville High School in 1936 and Simpson College in 1940. Ruth met Jerry at the end of her freshman year and never dated another man. In 1941 she married Gerald (Jerry) Beymer. After World War II, they spent the rest of their lives in Indianola where they had three children, Jean, Ann and Bob.
Ruth taught High School English and American Literature and helped Jerry with the family jewelry store. She was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority at Simpson College, the PEO Sisterhood in Indianola and an active member of Trinity United Presbyterian Church where she became an ordained Elder and Deacon.
A writer of poetry and prose, Ruth had several poems published in Lyric Iowa and The Village View. At the age of 83, she published her own book “Golden Reflections: My Lifetime in Poetry and Prose”.
On July 28, 2012, Ruth passed away at the Village in Indianola at the age of 93.
Ruth was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald “Jerry” Beymer in 2003 and brother, Raymond Harris in 2011. She is survived by her children, Jean Corbin, Ann (Mike) Bock, and Bob (Cheryl) Beymer; five grandchildren, Karen Corbin (Kathleen Cahill), Joe (Kim) Bock, David (Kathie) Bock, Dan (Jane) Bock, and Amanda (Dietrich) Flesch; seven great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be given to Trinity United Presbyterian Church, The Good Shepherd Fund at The Village or Warren County Habitat For Humanity. Online condolences may be made at www.overtonfunerals.com .