Ruth C. Lewis

Ruth C. Lewis, age 87, died Friday evening, March 9, 2001, at the Bethel Center in Arpin.

Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Hansen Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Richard Herrmann will officiate. William Allen will serve as soloist and Maldon Plank, organist. Burial will be in the Mound Cemetery in Pittsville.

Friends may call from 10 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral chapel.

She was born Jan. 7, 1914, in Buleau, N. Dak., the daughter of Louis and Belle (nee Vincent) Wetzel. She graduated from Gilman High School, attended Taylor County Norman School and vocational school in Milwaukee. She received her Bachelor of Science in Education from the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire. She taught grades one through eight at area country schools in Aurora Center, Stetsonville, Pleasant Hill, Chili (Clark Co., WI), Rine Circle, Cozy Corners and the Sunbeam School in the town of Lynn (Clark Co., WI). She further taught at Loyal and Pittsville Public Schools where she was a sixth grade English and Social Studies teacher, retiring in 1975.

She was married to John B. Lewis on Oct. 30, 1942, at St. Andrew's Catholic Church Rectory in Gilman. Mr. Lewis died June 6, 1973.

Mrs. Lewis is a former member of St. Joachim's Catholic Church in Pittsville and a member of the Royal Neighbors.

Survivors include two daughters, Mary (Jerome Carl) Lewis in Eau Claire and Erin (Robert) LeSage in Marshfield one son, Andrew (Mary) Lewis of Sand Springs, Okla. and three sisters, Lucille (Leonard) Butek of Gilman, Alice Heagle of Menomonie and Gertrude Bahrke of Milwaukee.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Lewis was predeceased by her parents two brothers, Francis Wetzel and Raymond Wetzel and one sister, Gladys Browning.

Memorials may be designated to Marshfield Medical Foundation for Alzheimer's Research.

Source: MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 3/14/2001