Individual Details
Ruth Marie Dillon
(2 Nov 1922 - 31 Jan 2000)
1 _MDCL Scoliosis and appeared to have osteoporosis. Bunions on feet required surgery. Knees needed replaced joints. Kidney infections regularly.
She was the second child, and the only one who lived. Her older brother was stillborn.
Baptized by Msgr. H. H. Wernke at Our Lady of Good Counsel in December of 1922. Godparents were her paternal grandparents, Michael J. Dillon and Ruth Prater Dillon, because her mother was not Catholic at this time.
First Communion was by Msgr. H. H. Wernke at Our Lady of Good Counsel.
Confirmation was by Bishop John B. Morris at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Her sponsor was her paternal grandmother, Ruth Prater Dillon.
Marriage was on December 12, 1945, by Msgr. H. H. Wernke at Our Lady of Good Counsel. Witnesses were Mary Dorothea (?) and William Havansek, nephew of the groom from Chicago. Other attendants were Catherine Gilkerson.
Death was January 31, 2000, at St. Vincent's North Little Rock clinic in Sherwood, Arkansas. The burial service was at Christ the King Catholic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, by Msgr. Gaston Hebert. Buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in south Little Rock.
Scoliosis and appeared to have osteoporosis. Bunions on feet required surgery. Knees needed replaced joints. Kidney infections regularly
She was the second child, and the only one who lived. Her older brother was stillborn.
Baptized by Msgr. H. H. Wernke at Our Lady of Good Counsel in December of 1922. Godparents were her paternal grandparents, Michael J. Dillon and Ruth Prater Dillon, because her mother was not Catholic at this time.
First Communion was by Msgr. H. H. Wernke at Our Lady of Good Counsel.
Confirmation was by Bishop John B. Morris at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Her sponsor was her paternal grandmother, Ruth Prater Dillon.
Marriage was on December 12, 1945, by Msgr. H. H. Wernke at Our Lady of Good Counsel. Witnesses were Mary Dorothea (?) and William Havansek, nephew of the groom from Chicago. Other attendants were Catherine Gilkerson.
Death was January 31, 2000, at St. Vincent's North Little Rock clinic in Sherwood, Arkansas. The burial service was at Christ the King Catholic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, by Msgr. Gaston Hebert. Buried at Forest Hills Cemetery in south Little Rock.
Scoliosis and appeared to have osteoporosis. Bunions on feet required surgery. Knees needed replaced joints. Kidney infections regularly
Events
| Birth | 2 Nov 1922 | Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Ark | |||
| Marriage | 12 Dec 1945 | Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Ark - Edward William Cassidy | |||
| Death | 31 Jan 2000 | Atrial Fibriliation, brain stem strokes and grand mal seizures. - North Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Ark | |||
| Burial | 4 Feb 2000 | Forrest Hills Memorial Park, Pulaski Co., Little Rock, Ark |
Families
| Spouse | Edward William Cassidy (1914 - 1983) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Kevin Edward Cassidy (1954 - 1954) |
| Child | Living |
| Father | William John Dillon (1891 - 1968) |
| Mother | Effie Sadie COLEMAN (1898 - 1989) |
| Sibling | Living |