Ruth Ehrisman Oct. 2, 1922-Feb. 25, 2018


Ruth Ehrisman

     Ruth Ehrisman, age 95, died Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018 at the Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following an extended illness.

     Funeral services will be held 11 Friday morning, March 2, 2018 at the First Presbyterian Church, Monticello, with interment in the Oakwood Cemetery. Pastor Emory Gillespie and Pastor Paul Skelley will officiate at the services. Friends may call after 9:30 Friday at the church. Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello has been entrusted with Ruth’s care and services. 

     Surviving is a niece, Marjorie (Steve) Shadwick, Marana, Ariz.; six nephews, Dean (Penny) Ehrisman, Don (Cindy) Ehrisman, Gary (Julie) Ehrisman, Larry (Sue) Ehrisman, all of Monticello, Ronald (Deb) Ehrisman, Ocala, Fla., Kenneth Ehrisman, Stark, Fla.; a niece-in-law, Joyce Ehrisman, Monticello; and her longtime friend, Regina Busch, Monticello. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Dorothy Ehrisman and a nephew Steven. 

     Ruth Christabell Ehrisman was born Oct. 2, 1922 at Wagner, S.D., the daughter Christabell (Hiner) and Louis A. Ehrisman. Her mother, Christabell, died on Nov. 2, 1922 at the age of 26 years, 10 months and 8 days. Her father, Louis, married Harriett Lubben on Dec. 15, 1923 and the couple moved to Monticello. Ruth then attended Castle Grove #5 rural school and graduated from the Monticello High School in 1940. She continued her education at Lenox College in Hopkinton and then American Institute of Commerce in Davenport. She lived with several families and did light housekeeping and childcare. During the war years she also worked at J.I. Case in the Quad Cities, building airplane wings. For 20 years she worked at Nichols Wire and Aluminum in the Quad Cities as a payroll clerk. She returned to Monticello in 1965, after the death of her father, and began working in the local flower shops. Ruth retired in 1981. 

     Ruth was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. She also loved to travel and had been to Hawaii, Florida, Alaskan Cruises, Oregon, Mexico, Mackinac Island, Door County, Wis., Branson, Mo., the Black Hill and the Great Southwest and Great Northwest. 

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