Longenecker, Ruth E. Kreider (1919-2003)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2003 Sep 8 p. 12

Birth date: 1919 Jan 5

text of obituary:

RUTH E. LONGENECKER

Ruth E. Longenecker, 84, of Chambersburg, Pa., died Aug. 2, 2003. She was born Jan. 5, 1919, to Amon K. and Elizabeth Z. Miller Kreider in Flory Mills.

She attended West Side Brethren in Christ Church of Chambersburg and Black Oak Mennonite Church in Warfordsburg.

Survivors include her husband, Elmer Z. Longenecker; a daughter, Eunice E. Stoner and her husband, Ben, of Farmington, N.M.; two sons, Dale K. and his wife, Ellen, of Millersville, and Alton K. and his wife, Lois, of Elkhart, Ind.; a brother, Martin F. Kreider of Milford, Del.; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Elmer F.; and a sister, Ethel Zeger.

Services were held at West Side Brethren in Christ Church. Burial was in Shopes Mennonite Cemetery in Highspire.