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Richert, Ruth Margaret (1910-1930)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1930 Mar 19 p. 4
Birth date: 1910 Jan 24
text of obituary:
Friends of Miss Ruth Richert were grieved to learn of her death which occurred Sunday evening at ten o'clock at Bethel hospital where she had been a patient for but a few days.
Miss Richert had been troubled with a heart complication for several years but was able to be about and was on the street the day before the acute attack came that baffled her physicians and nurses.
She is the daughter of Mrs. J. H. Richert and a sister of Mrs. Henry Ensz and of Carl J. Richert. The father passed on April 21, 1928.
Ruth was born the twenty-fourth day of January, 1910 at Goessel, Kansas and has spent her entire life in Newton where she has been a student of the Newton schools, being obliged to leave the high school in her sophomore year because of the heart trouble. She has always been a home girl and was greatly beloved by those near anad [sic] to her and by her many friends in school and church.
Funeral services in charge of Rev. J. E. Entz were held today (Wed.) at the home at 408 East Fourth street at 2:00 p. m. and at the First Mennonite church at 2:30 p. m. Entombment will be in Greenwood Abbey.
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1930 Apr 16 p. 10
text of obituary:
Ruth Margaret Richert was born at Goessel, Kansas, on January 24, 1910, and within a few weeks she came to Newton, Kansas, with her parents where she grew to womanhood.
She here attended the public schools until her sophomore year in High School when, as a result of an operation for appendicitis, her heart was left in a weakened condition and she was forced to discontinue school. At the physician's request she remained bedfast for six months to gain strength of heart and body. She was surprisingly cheerful thruout all these difficulties and was able to improve her condition to some extent.
She was studious and very conscientious in all her work, she was never satisfied with merely average work in any of her classes. She was always kind, considerate and thotful of others and never had any selfish motives in any of her dealings. She was very much interested in the Sunday School and other church activities although she was unable to take an active part in much of this work on account of a nervous condition which followed as a result of her heart condition.
Ruth's main interest was always in the home where she spent most of her time. The death of her father on April 21, 1928, seemed to cause her to feel more depressed than she had been before. She felt as useless when she was unable to go to school, to work, or to take an active part in any activities. Seven weeks after her father passed away another grief saddened her when her aunt passed away at an age and period of greatest usefulness, leaving a baby boy to be taken care of by Ruth, her mother brother and sister. This proved to be just what Ruth needed to cheer her up and to keep her mind occupied. She gave practically her full time of the last twenty months of her life to the care, interest and bringing up of the youngster. Taking care of babies was her main pleasure and delight.
She was a true, devoted friend, although she was left more or less to herself after having to discontinue her school work. She did not strive for popularity but was always quiet and unassuming and a good girl in the fullest meaning. Ruth had an implicit faith in God and in Jesus Christ and upon her confession of faith she was baptized in the First Mennonite Church of Newton in 1925.
After nearly a year and a half of seemingly good health she suddenly took ill on Thursday, March 13 and grew steadily worse with a rising temperature and soon lost control of her consciousness, and then remained in this condition for the rest of the time except for intervals on Saturday. After much struggling she passed out of this life at 10 o'clock Sunday night, completing a life filled with service and kind deeds.
The funeral service at the home was in charge of Rev. B. Regier and at the church Rev. J. E. Entz and Rev. Abr. Warkentin spoke words of comfort. Interment was made in Greenwood Abbey.
Let her memory be a blessing
Fragrant with unfading flowers;
Blossoms that will bear transplanting
To the lovely Eden bowers.
Let it be a goodly garden
Stored with sheaves of golden grain
Gleaned from fields of earnest effort
Fruits of everlasting gain.
Let her memory be a blessing
Filled with treasures from above;
Bright with grateful recollections
Of a Savior's tender love.
And his promises so precious
Safe within it's keeping lie;
Passing though some lonely valley
They will cheer us by and by.
Let her memory be a blessing
To its sacred care confide;
Only that which helps us upward
Where the pure and true abide.
Cherishing the fair and noble—
In those tapestries of thought
Which have borne her on and upward
And a heavenly palace wrought
