Christian August Frederick "Fred" Ruby (1903 - 1995) was born June 17, 1903, in Unity, Wisconsin. He died Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1995 at age 92. Services were Saturday, Dec. 23, 1995 in Attrell's Newberg Chapel. Committal in Valley View Memorial Park Mausoleum in Newberg, Oregon.
Fred celebrated his 90th birthday on June 17, 1993. Kathleen Naomi Krause, his wife, was 85 on 28 Sep 1993. Their 65th wedding anniversary was June 10, 1993. The family had a reunion on June 13, 1993, with more than fifty descendants and family present.
Fred spent his early years on the homestead in South Dakota that his birth Father Carl Benjamin "Ben" Ruby (1877-1910) and his Uncle Richard Frederick "Fred" Ruby (1884-1955) built; On the homestead, the brothers built a one-room sod house for Ben and his Wife Adele (born Schmale) Ruby (1878-1954) and their six children--Fred, Anna, Carl, Paul, Frank, and Bill.
Fred's birth Father Ben was killed in a coal mine near the homestead, and a couple of years later his birth Mother Adele married Ben's brother Fred, who raised his nephew Fred and his brothers and sister as his own children.
Fred's Uncle Fred and his birth Mother Adele gave birth to six more children--Chris, Richard, Rose, Ruth, Emma, and May, all born in that sod house except May. Another baby, Adele, was stillborn and is laid to rest in the Ruby Family Cemetery next to Ben's grave.
Fred married Kathleen Naomi (born Krause) Ruby (1908 - 1996) on June 10, 1928, in Hettinger (Adams County), North Dakota. They moved to Oregon in 1960, and he worked as grounds-keeper for Meriwether Golf Course for 23 years, retiring in 1983.
Fred was a member of the Norwood Bible Church in Tualatin. Fred was survived by his wife; son, Ben of Hillsboro, and Boyd of Scappoose; daughters, Carol Breidenbach of Tualatin, June Metz of Vancouver, Wash; and Eleanor Halvorson of Ocean Park, Wash; brother Paul of Whitewood, S.D.; sisters Ruth Herald of Kentucky, May Hathaway of Lemmon, S.D. and Emma Willey of Winston,Ore; 15 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
*Biography Facts Courtesy of "Prairie Rattlers, Long Johns and Chokecherry Wine: Memoirs from the Silent Prairie" (ISBN: 1-4137-0053-5), authored by Emma L. (born Ruby) Willey, the eleventh of Adele (born Schmale) Ruby's twelve children and who is the only living sibling.
Fred celebrated his 90th birthday on June 17, 1993. Kathleen Naomi Krause, his wife, was 85 on 28 Sep 1993. Their 65th wedding anniversary was June 10, 1993. The family had a reunion on June 13, 1993, with more than fifty descendants and family present.
Fred spent his early years on the homestead in South Dakota that his birth Father Carl Benjamin "Ben" Ruby (1877-1910) and his Uncle Richard Frederick "Fred" Ruby (1884-1955) built; On the homestead, the brothers built a one-room sod house for Ben and his Wife Adele (born Schmale) Ruby (1878-1954) and their six children--Fred, Anna, Carl, Paul, Frank, and Bill.
Fred's birth Father Ben was killed in a coal mine near the homestead, and a couple of years later his birth Mother Adele married Ben's brother Fred, who raised his nephew Fred and his brothers and sister as his own children.
Fred's Uncle Fred and his birth Mother Adele gave birth to six more children--Chris, Richard, Rose, Ruth, Emma, and May, all born in that sod house except May. Another baby, Adele, was stillborn and is laid to rest in the Ruby Family Cemetery next to Ben's grave.
Fred married Kathleen Naomi (born Krause) Ruby (1908 - 1996) on June 10, 1928, in Hettinger (Adams County), North Dakota. They moved to Oregon in 1960, and he worked as grounds-keeper for Meriwether Golf Course for 23 years, retiring in 1983.
Fred was a member of the Norwood Bible Church in Tualatin. Fred was survived by his wife; son, Ben of Hillsboro, and Boyd of Scappoose; daughters, Carol Breidenbach of Tualatin, June Metz of Vancouver, Wash; and Eleanor Halvorson of Ocean Park, Wash; brother Paul of Whitewood, S.D.; sisters Ruth Herald of Kentucky, May Hathaway of Lemmon, S.D. and Emma Willey of Winston,Ore; 15 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
*Biography Facts Courtesy of "Prairie Rattlers, Long Johns and Chokecherry Wine: Memoirs from the Silent Prairie" (ISBN: 1-4137-0053-5), authored by Emma L. (born Ruby) Willey, the eleventh of Adele (born Schmale) Ruby's twelve children and who is the only living sibling.
Christian August Frederick "Fred" Ruby (1903 - 1995) was born June 17, 1903, in Unity, Wisconsin. He died Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1995 at age 92. Services were Saturday, Dec. 23, 1995 in Attrell's Newberg Chapel. Committal in Valley View Memorial Park Mausoleum in Newberg, Oregon.
Fred celebrated his 90th birthday on June 17, 1993. Kathleen Naomi Krause, his wife, was 85 on 28 Sep 1993. Their 65th wedding anniversary was June 10, 1993. The family had a reunion on June 13, 1993, with more than fifty descendants and family present.
Fred spent his early years on the homestead in South Dakota that his birth Father Carl Benjamin "Ben" Ruby (1877-1910) and his Uncle Richard Frederick "Fred" Ruby (1884-1955) built; On the homestead, the brothers built a one-room sod house for Ben and his Wife Adele (born Schmale) Ruby (1878-1954) and their six children--Fred, Anna, Carl, Paul, Frank, and Bill.
Fred's birth Father Ben was killed in a coal mine near the homestead, and a couple of years later his birth Mother Adele married Ben's brother Fred, who raised his nephew Fred and his brothers and sister as his own children.
Fred's Uncle Fred and his birth Mother Adele gave birth to six more children--Chris, Richard, Rose, Ruth, Emma, and May, all born in that sod house except May. Another baby, Adele, was stillborn and is laid to rest in the Ruby Family Cemetery next to Ben's grave.
Fred married Kathleen Naomi (born Krause) Ruby (1908 - 1996) on June 10, 1928, in Hettinger (Adams County), North Dakota. They moved to Oregon in 1960, and he worked as grounds-keeper for Meriwether Golf Course for 23 years, retiring in 1983.
Fred was a member of the Norwood Bible Church in Tualatin. Fred was survived by his wife; son, Ben of Hillsboro, and Boyd of Scappoose; daughters, Carol Breidenbach of Tualatin, June Metz of Vancouver, Wash; and Eleanor Halvorson of Ocean Park, Wash; brother Paul of Whitewood, S.D.; sisters Ruth Herald of Kentucky, May Hathaway of Lemmon, S.D. and Emma Willey of Winston,Ore; 15 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
*Biography Facts Courtesy of "Prairie Rattlers, Long Johns and Chokecherry Wine: Memoirs from the Silent Prairie" (ISBN: 1-4137-0053-5), authored by Emma L. (born Ruby) Willey, the eleventh of Adele (born Schmale) Ruby's twelve children and who is the only living sibling.
Fred celebrated his 90th birthday on June 17, 1993. Kathleen Naomi Krause, his wife, was 85 on 28 Sep 1993. Their 65th wedding anniversary was June 10, 1993. The family had a reunion on June 13, 1993, with more than fifty descendants and family present.
Fred spent his early years on the homestead in South Dakota that his birth Father Carl Benjamin "Ben" Ruby (1877-1910) and his Uncle Richard Frederick "Fred" Ruby (1884-1955) built; On the homestead, the brothers built a one-room sod house for Ben and his Wife Adele (born Schmale) Ruby (1878-1954) and their six children--Fred, Anna, Carl, Paul, Frank, and Bill.
Fred's birth Father Ben was killed in a coal mine near the homestead, and a couple of years later his birth Mother Adele married Ben's brother Fred, who raised his nephew Fred and his brothers and sister as his own children.
Fred's Uncle Fred and his birth Mother Adele gave birth to six more children--Chris, Richard, Rose, Ruth, Emma, and May, all born in that sod house except May. Another baby, Adele, was stillborn and is laid to rest in the Ruby Family Cemetery next to Ben's grave.
Fred married Kathleen Naomi (born Krause) Ruby (1908 - 1996) on June 10, 1928, in Hettinger (Adams County), North Dakota. They moved to Oregon in 1960, and he worked as grounds-keeper for Meriwether Golf Course for 23 years, retiring in 1983.
Fred was a member of the Norwood Bible Church in Tualatin. Fred was survived by his wife; son, Ben of Hillsboro, and Boyd of Scappoose; daughters, Carol Breidenbach of Tualatin, June Metz of Vancouver, Wash; and Eleanor Halvorson of Ocean Park, Wash; brother Paul of Whitewood, S.D.; sisters Ruth Herald of Kentucky, May Hathaway of Lemmon, S.D. and Emma Willey of Winston,Ore; 15 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.
*Biography Facts Courtesy of "Prairie Rattlers, Long Johns and Chokecherry Wine: Memoirs from the Silent Prairie" (ISBN: 1-4137-0053-5), authored by Emma L. (born Ruby) Willey, the eleventh of Adele (born Schmale) Ruby's twelve children and who is the only living sibling.
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