Ruth Francis Thode

The Payette Independent
Thursday, July 19, 1928

OBITUARY

The entire community was saddened when it became known that with the closing of the day, Friday, July 13, just as the last rays of light were fading a new day in a better land was breaking for a dear sweet girl, Ruth Thode. It seemed almost impossible, she was gone, for she had been sick in the hospital just a few days, every thing possible being done for her, but it seemed she could not stay.

Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, July 17, at 10 a.m. at the Methodist Church in Fruitland conducted by Rev. Winters.

Mrs. Bernard Eastman sang very sweetly, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "No Night There," Mrs. Clarence Yensen accompanying her. The many beautiful flowers were silent tokens of love and many were the friends who accompanied the body to its last resting place, at Parkview, New Plymouth. At the close of the services there they sang "Nearer My God to Thee."

Ruth Francis Thode was born July 29, 1896, in Mattoon, Illinois. In 1916 she moved with her parents to Fruitland, Idaho, where she grew to young womanhood. She passed away July 13, 1928, at the hospital in Ontario, Oregon, at the age of 31 years, 11 months and 14 days. She leaves to mourn her untimely going her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Thode, two brothers, John and Frank, all of Fruitland, a sister, Mrs. Arthur H. Shaw, of Berkley, California, one little niece and one nephew, children of Mrs. Shaw, her grandmother, J. P. Cooper, two uncles, George and John Thode, two aunts, Mrs. Nettie Cooper and Mrs. Carrie Thode, all of Mattoon, Illinois, besides many many friends. To know Ruth was to love her, where ever she was her sweet smile and unselfish sunny disposition won for her the hearts of all who knew her.