Ruth was known by the name Tootie. How she got that nickname is unknown. She was born and grew up in Western Mass during the great depression. Work was scarce and she would sometimes tell of only having potato soup to eat. Times where hard but they survived. She had 10 siblings. They were a close knit family.
Tootie started attending the Salvation Army with her brother Jerry, when she was young. When she was old enough she went to New York City to their officer training school and while doing an internship in Danbury Ct she met and married her husband Raymond. He had just been discharged from the Military and was staying at the Salvation Army half way house where she worked. He was working in a local hospital.
After they married they visited North Adams and Ray liked it so much he wanted to live there. They moved to North Adams to live.
Tootie was active in the local Advent Christian Church and when her brother Gerald founded Zion Pentacostal Church she was one of the charter members.
Ruth continued working with the disadvantaged in several capacities within the church, first at Zion Pentacostal Church and then at Bethel, teaching Sunday School, managing the church pantry where people could come and receive food and necessities. She served as the secretary-treasurer of the Sunday School for many years. She was very well liked by everyone that knew her. Several times she opened her home to people who had no place to live. Tootie was a well respected name and everyone knew her by that.
She loved poetry for the rhyme and rhythm of it and for the meaning of the words and how they fit together. She loved scrabble.
The Funeral service was at Bethel Pentacostal Church with the Reverand Dennis C. Castella leading the service. Burial was in Southview in the family plot.
NOTE: Thanks to Linda Tomaszak for the obituary from which some of this information came.
Tootie started attending the Salvation Army with her brother Jerry, when she was young. When she was old enough she went to New York City to their officer training school and while doing an internship in Danbury Ct she met and married her husband Raymond. He had just been discharged from the Military and was staying at the Salvation Army half way house where she worked. He was working in a local hospital.
After they married they visited North Adams and Ray liked it so much he wanted to live there. They moved to North Adams to live.
Tootie was active in the local Advent Christian Church and when her brother Gerald founded Zion Pentacostal Church she was one of the charter members.
Ruth continued working with the disadvantaged in several capacities within the church, first at Zion Pentacostal Church and then at Bethel, teaching Sunday School, managing the church pantry where people could come and receive food and necessities. She served as the secretary-treasurer of the Sunday School for many years. She was very well liked by everyone that knew her. Several times she opened her home to people who had no place to live. Tootie was a well respected name and everyone knew her by that.
She loved poetry for the rhyme and rhythm of it and for the meaning of the words and how they fit together. She loved scrabble.
The Funeral service was at Bethel Pentacostal Church with the Reverand Dennis C. Castella leading the service. Burial was in Southview in the family plot.
NOTE: Thanks to Linda Tomaszak for the obituary from which some of this information came.
Ruth was known by the name Tootie. How she got that nickname is unknown. She was born and grew up in Western Mass during the great depression. Work was scarce and she would sometimes tell of only having potato soup to eat. Times where hard but they survived. She had 10 siblings. They were a close knit family.
Tootie started attending the Salvation Army with her brother Jerry, when she was young. When she was old enough she went to New York City to their officer training school and while doing an internship in Danbury Ct she met and married her husband Raymond. He had just been discharged from the Military and was staying at the Salvation Army half way house where she worked. He was working in a local hospital.
After they married they visited North Adams and Ray liked it so much he wanted to live there. They moved to North Adams to live.
Tootie was active in the local Advent Christian Church and when her brother Gerald founded Zion Pentacostal Church she was one of the charter members.
Ruth continued working with the disadvantaged in several capacities within the church, first at Zion Pentacostal Church and then at Bethel, teaching Sunday School, managing the church pantry where people could come and receive food and necessities. She served as the secretary-treasurer of the Sunday School for many years. She was very well liked by everyone that knew her. Several times she opened her home to people who had no place to live. Tootie was a well respected name and everyone knew her by that.
She loved poetry for the rhyme and rhythm of it and for the meaning of the words and how they fit together. She loved scrabble.
The Funeral service was at Bethel Pentacostal Church with the Reverand Dennis C. Castella leading the service. Burial was in Southview in the family plot.
NOTE: Thanks to Linda Tomaszak for the obituary from which some of this information came.
Tootie started attending the Salvation Army with her brother Jerry, when she was young. When she was old enough she went to New York City to their officer training school and while doing an internship in Danbury Ct she met and married her husband Raymond. He had just been discharged from the Military and was staying at the Salvation Army half way house where she worked. He was working in a local hospital.
After they married they visited North Adams and Ray liked it so much he wanted to live there. They moved to North Adams to live.
Tootie was active in the local Advent Christian Church and when her brother Gerald founded Zion Pentacostal Church she was one of the charter members.
Ruth continued working with the disadvantaged in several capacities within the church, first at Zion Pentacostal Church and then at Bethel, teaching Sunday School, managing the church pantry where people could come and receive food and necessities. She served as the secretary-treasurer of the Sunday School for many years. She was very well liked by everyone that knew her. Several times she opened her home to people who had no place to live. Tootie was a well respected name and everyone knew her by that.
She loved poetry for the rhyme and rhythm of it and for the meaning of the words and how they fit together. She loved scrabble.
The Funeral service was at Bethel Pentacostal Church with the Reverand Dennis C. Castella leading the service. Burial was in Southview in the family plot.
NOTE: Thanks to Linda Tomaszak for the obituary from which some of this information came.
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