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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.

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.