Ruth C. Cook
Sept. 8, 1909-Dec. 6, 1989
The Herald-Palladium (Saint Joseph, Michigan), 07 December 1989, Thursday, page 17, submitted by family member
NILES - Ruth C. Cook, 80, 1615 North Fifth St., Niles, died Wednesday at Thurston Woods Village, Sturgis, following a brief illness.
The funeral will be held Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Halbritter Funeral Home, Niles, where friends may call Friday from 2 to 4 p.m and 7 to 9 p.m., and where a rosary will be said Friday at 7:30 p.m. Burial will be in Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles.
Mrs. Cook was born Sept. 8, 1909, in Chicago. She moved to Niles in 1943 coming from Chicago. She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church, Niles; former state and national president of Mothers of World War II; member of Ladies of G.A.R. and Daughters of America.
Survivors include: a daughter, Ruth Ann McDonald of Indianapolis, Ind.; two sons - Robert of Salt Lake City, Utah and John of Sturgis; 20 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and three sisters - Carolyn Baldwin of Irvine, Calif., Gwendolyn McDade of Los Angeles, Calif. and Betty Lou Barry of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred, in 1966; and a daughter,
Josephine Clark, March of 1989.