Ten Eyck, Ruth Alice (1916 – 2004)

TEN EYCK, THOGERSEN, SORENSEN, SVOBODA

Posted By: Denise Wurner (email)
Date: 8/5/2013 at 15:04:35

Name of deceased: Ruth Alice Ten Eyck (nee Thogersen)

Aged: 88 yrs, 2 mo, 11 days

Residence: Kearney, NE

Born: Sept. 23, 1916, Kirkman, IA

Died: Dec. 4, 2004, Good Samaritan Hospital, Kearney, NE

Funeral services: Thursday, Dec. 9, 2004, Burmeister-Johannsen Funeral Home, Harlan, IA; Pastor Mark Jamison officiated. Burial was in the Harlan Cemetery in Harlan, IA.

Survived by: Son, Ronald (spouse, Patsy) Ten Eyck of Elm Creek, NE; brother, Kenneth (spouse, Lorene) Thogersen of Chicago, IL; granddaughters, Debbie (spouse, Dennis) Svoboda and Tammie Ten Eyck, both of Drummond, MT; Terrie Ten Eyck of Sheridan, WY, and DeAnn Ten Eyck of Cairo, NE; 8 great-grandchildren; 1 great-great-grandchild; other relatives and friends

Predeceased by: Parents, Paul and Sena (nee Sorensen) Thogersen; husband, William R. Ten Eyck (deceased March 29, 1976, Boulder, CO)

Education: attended Laurel School in Harlan, IA, and graduated from Harlan (IA) High School, Class of 1935.

Marriage: William Ronald Ten Eyck, April 25, 1937, Mexico, MO.

Employment: farmed with spouse in IA; after the move to CO. in 1962, was a bookkeeper for K-Mart in the Ladies Dept. Retired 1980 to Harlan, IA.

Hobbies/Interests: Member, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Harlan, IA. She enjoyed sewing; made ski clothes while living in CO.

Source: burmeisterjohannsen.com