Ruby J. Kneen 1922 - 2008

KNEEN, MAXWELL, SUMMERS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/2/2019 at 20:12:50

Sioux City Journal
28 December 2008

CHEROKEE, Iowa -- Ruby J. Kneen, 86, longtime Cherokee resident, passed away Friday, Dec. 26, 2008, at a Sioux City hospital following a brief illness.

Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, with the Rev. Missy Brown officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery at Cherokee. There will be a family prayer service at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, with the family present 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the funeral home. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com.

Ruby was born June 10, 1922, in Guthrie County, Iowa, to John and Laura (Maxwell) Summers. She graduated from Wilson High School in 1940. She was married to Shelby Kneen on June 5, 1943 at Lincoln, Neb. She had lived in Cherokee most of her life. Besides caring for her family and her home, Ruby had worked as a telephone operator, helped manage a family restaurant and farmed with her husband. She loved gardening, fishing, walking and spending time with her family. She was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Cherokee.

Ruby is survived by a son and a daughter, Terry Kneen and his wife, Dulcie of Springfield, Ore., and Nancy Kneen of Kearney, Neb.; three grandchildren, Austin and Molly Kneen and Kaelin Kneen; a brother-in-law, Bernard Moore of Council Bluffs, Iowa; two sisters-in-law, Olive Summers of North Platte, Neb., and Eleanor Kneen of North Carolina; as well as many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Shelby on Dec. 29, 1999; a son, Michael Kneen; four brothers, Harold, Clyde, Ellsworth and Maxwell Summers; and three sisters, Leta Swezey, Grace Sjoblom and Jacqueline Moore.