Ruth Quisenberry
[December
04, 2013]
LINCOLN —
Ruth E. Quisenberry, 89, died Monday, Dec. 2, 2013, at Waterford at
Oakwood Assisted Living in Oakwood, Ga.
(Below is a copy of
the obituary from the funeral home.)
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Ruth E. Quisenberry age 89 died Monday December 2,
2013 at Waterford at Oakwood Assisted Living in
Oakwood GA.
She was born Jan. 31, 1924 in Lincoln Il. The
daughter of Carl Albert and Lena (Behrends) Wrage.
She was a lifelong educator. She started in a one
room country school in rural Logan county, retired
after 20 years of teaching at Heyworth, IL and ended
her career as a assistant professor at Bradley
University where she had started her higher
education. She was a proud graduate of Hartsburg-Emden
High School and had undergraduate and Masters
degrees from Illinois State University.
Ruth loved to learn and teach, travel, and her
family and so many times these three loves merged.
In addition to teaching she was on the board of
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital, director of the
Women, Infant, and Children program in Logan County,
and helped start Logan County Hospice.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert of
65 years, her son John R. Quisenberry and her two
sisters, Virginia Otte and Margaret Dingledine.
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Ruth is survived by her son Rod (Mary Murray)
Quisenberry of Gainesville, GA.. Her three
grandchildren, who she loved dearly, Eric (Chrissy)
Quisenberry of Villanova, PA, Michael (Jennifer) of
Buford, GA and Michelle Quisenberry of Bluffton SC,
two great-grandchildren, Maeve and Thomas
Quisenberry of Villanova, PA. She is further
survived by extended family Roger and Jo (Murray)
Bunten of Peoria, IL, and grandchildren Katie of
Indianapolis, IN, and Matt of Peoria, IL, the living
members of the Card Group of over 60 years and many
nieces and nephews.
Memorial services are to be held at St Peter
Lutheran Church in Emden on Tuesday the 10th of
December at 11AM. Interment will be at Bethel
Cemetery. Friends may greet the family from 9:30AM
until the services on Tuesday. Holland Barry &
Bennett Funeral Home in Lincoln has been
entrusted with local arrangements. In lieu of
flowers, memorials may be made to the Hospice of
Northeast Georgia Medical Center or to the Emden
Historical Society.
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