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Ruth E Dyer Adams
BIRTH 31 May 1917
DEATH 9 Sep 2011 (aged 94)
BURIAL Elwood CemeteryLatah County, Idaho, USA
MEMORIAL ID 77238262 · View Source
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A graveside service for Ruth E. (Dyer) Adams will be Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at the Elwood Cemetery on Texas Ridge near Deary. Mrs. Adams died Friday, September 9, 2011 at Aspen Park Healthcare in Moscow. She was 94.

Ruth was born May 31, 1917 at Bend, Oregon to Egbert and Leona Wilson Dyer. She moved to Kendrick in 1933 to be with her uncle, A.C. Wilson and family. While there she met a young man who worked for her uncle, and she married Willie Adams on October 8, 1935 and spent 64 years together before Willie's death in April 2000.

Ruth was proud to be a nurse, graduating from St. Joseph's Hospital Nursing Program later in life. She worked at St. Joseph Hospital and State Hospital North in Orofino. Both Ruth at Willie retired from State Hospital after 16 years of service. Upon retirement, they moved back to the Kendrick and Juliaetta area. They were members of the Juliaetta Church of the Nazarene.

In addition to her husband, Willie, Ruth was preceded in death by a daughter, Joyce Whitlock, a brother, Elbert Dyer, a half-sister, Dolores Johnson and four great grandchildren.

She is survived by three daughters, Karen and Manley Waldron of Bovill, ID, Ruth-Mary and Al Wolvin of Rainier, WA and Connie-Faye Adams of Lewiston and a son, Brent Adams of Moab, Utah. She also leaves 17 grandchildren, 38 great-grandchildren and 19 great great grandchildren.

Memorials are suggested to the Alzheimer's Association.

"It broke our hearts to lose you, but you didn't go alone, for part of us went with you the day God called you home."

Arrangements have been entrusted to Short's Funeral Chapel, Moscow, and online condolences may be sent to www.shortsfuneralchapel.net.