Ruth Mary WILLHITE was my mother. She was born March 16, 1933 to Clarence Galan WILLHITE and Gertrude Bertha RAUSCHKE in New Ulm, Minnesota. She grew up in New Ulm with her parents, an older brother and a younger sister.
Ruth attended St. Paul's Lutheran School in New Ulm, Minnesota. She continued her education in New Ulm, Minnesota at Martin Luther Academy and Dr Martin Luther College to become a teacher. Due to a teacher shortage at the time, she left college after two years to teach parochial school in Tucson, Arizona. Ruth married Ronald William HALL on May 19, 1956 in San Diego, California and continued to teach as a substitute parochial school teacher in many of the places she lived while moving with her husband, Ronald HALL and their son and daughter.
After Ruth and Ronald settled in New Ulm, Minnesota, Ruth
took up riding again and kept a horse on a farm near New Ulm for several years.
She also continued using her teaching skills and tutored several local students,
specializing in dyslexia.
Ruth and Ronald parted ways and were divorced on November 16,
1984 in Brown County, Minnesota. She never remarried and lived in New Ulm,
Minnesota until she died on January 15, 1995. She was cremated and her ashes
were buried with her parents in St Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, New Ulm, Minnesota
on January 17, 1995.
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