Tena (Christians) RUTER

RUTER, CHRISTIANS, BENINGA, VAANDRAGER, VERBRUGGE, RIETEMA, ASSINK, HENSEL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/14/2008 at 20:46:09

KANAWHA - Tena Ruter, 91, of Kanawha, passed away Sunday (June 10, 2001) at the Hancock County Memorial Hospital in Britt. The funeral for Tena Ruter will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Wright Christian Reformed Church near Kanawha, with Pastor Charles Walton officiating. Burial will take place in the Wright Christian Reformed Cemetery near Kanawha. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday at the Ewing Dugger Funeral Home in Kanawha and one hour before services at the church.

Tena, the daughter of Nick and Nellie Beninga Christians, was born May 16, 1910, at Kanawha. She grew up in the Kanawha area and received her education in the country schools. Tena was united in marriage with John C. Ruter on Nov. 30, 1932, at the home of her parents in Norway Township near Kanawha. The couple farmed southwest of Kanawha until 1973. Tena later moved to her home in Kanawha, where she lived until entering the Kanawha Community Home on June 8, 1997. Tena was a member of the Wright Christian Reformed Church and the Ladies Aid Society.

Tena is survived by one daughter, Gretta Jane Vaandrager and her husband, Francis, of Kentwood, Mich.; three sons, Norman Ruter and his wife, Arlis, of Denver, Colo., Robert Ruter and his wife, Deloris, of Kanawha, and Kenneth Ruter and his wife, Sally, of Denver, Colo.; 15 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; four sisters, Tillie Verbrugge, Henrietta Rietema and her husband, Art, Nettie Assink and her husband, Harold, all of Kanawha, and Marguerite Hensel and her husband, Kelly, of Stockton, Ill.; one brother, James Christians and his wife, Mavis, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and three sisters-in-law: Minnie Christians, Oralene Christians, and Marge Christians all of Kanawha; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John, in 1973; one sister Minnie Rietema; and three brothers, Edward, Herman and Elmer Christians. Ewing Dugger Funeral Home.

Source unknown, ca. June 2001