PRHS CLASS OF 34: (Front Row l-r): Edith Thatcher, Nellie Book, Ruth Walters, Evelyn Kilmer, Helen Swartz, Ada Bowers, Helen Smith, Betty Gilliford; (Middle Row) Robert Stimmel, Ralph Stauffer, Theron Barton, John Meminger, Leland Keemer, Lester Yohn, Banks Robinson; (Back Row) Margaret Garett, James Hubler, Glen Kepner, John Barton, Gerald Groninger, Evelyn Foster
Contributed by rkohler3 on 1/8/23 - Image Year: 1934
OBITUARY for RUTH E. WALTERS STONG
RUTH E. WALTERS STONG, 79, of Thompsontown, formerly of Port Royal RR1, died at 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, April 9, 1997 at her residence.
She was born March 31, 1918 in Hagerstown, MD, a daughter of the late Fredrick L. and Myrtle [Kessler] Walters. Her husband, Miles B. Stong, died June 10, 1980.
She is survived by three daughters, Alice A. Kelley, Mexico, Janetta Stong Swartz, East Waterford RR1, and Mary Worley, Port Royal RR1; two sisters, Mary Edmiston, Rehrersburg, and Dorothy Osman, Millerstown; seven grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by five brothers, a sister and a great-granddaughter.
She was a retired practical nurse for the Green Thumb Senior Citizens Nursing, Mifflintown, and was a member of Ebenezer United Methodist Church, Port Royal RR1
Funeral services were held Saturday from the Henry Funeral Home, Honey Grove, with Rev. David Biser officiating. Interment was in St. Paul's Cemetery, Nook.
(THE JUNIATA SENTINEL - APRIL 16, 1997 - MIFFLINTOWN, PA.)
