RUTH LOUISE ECKERT, AGE 80, PASSED AWAY ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006 AT THE WICHITA COUNTY HEALTH CENTER IN LEOTI, KANSAS. RUTH WAS BORN MAY 15, 1926 AT SITKA, KANSAS THE DAUGHTER OF CHARLES BACON & ALICE FAITH COOK WILSON. SHE HAD BEEN A LEOTI RESIDENT SINCE 1971 MOVING FROM STRONG CITY, KANSAS. SHE WAS A DEVOTED HOMEMAKER, WAITRESS, COOK AND HAD WORKED AS A "ROSIE RIVETER" AT BOEING INDUSTRIES IN WICHITA, KANSAS DURING WORLD WAR TWO.
RUTH WAS A MEMBER OF THE V.F.W. AUXILLARY IN LEOTI, KANSAS
IN 1945 SHE MARRIED BERT FRY. HE DIED IN 1952. IN 1957 SHE MARRIED LOYAL ECKERT AT ASHLAND, KANSAS. HE DIED IN JANUARY OF 2004 AT PRATT, KANSAS.
RUTH'S SURVIVORS INCLUDE- FOUR SONS H.L. FRY- WOODBINE, GEORGIA DON FRY- COVENTRY, RHODE ISLAND ROY FRY- CEDER POINT, KANSAS GEORGE ECKERT- LEOTI, KANSAS THREE DAUGHTERS- CINDA MEDINA- PRETTY PRAIRIE, KANSAS JANNA ECKERT- LEOTI, KANSAS LANNA KREUTZER- LEOTI, KANSAS TWO BROTHERS- RICHARD WILSON- OKLAHOMA JAMES WILSON- PENNSYLVANIA ELEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, SIX GREAT GRANDCHILDREN
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 10:00 A.M. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006 AT THE ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH IN LEOTI, KANSAS WITH THE REVEREND EVERETT SMITH. GRAVESIDE SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 3:00 P.M. THURSDAY AT ASHLAND CEMETERY IN ASHLAND, KANSAS.
FRIENDS MAY CALL FROM 11:00 A.M. TO 8:00 P.M. WEDNESDAY AT PRICE & SONS FUNERAL HOME IN LEOTI, KANSAS.
MEMORIALS MAY BE GIVEN TO THE WICHITA COUNTY HEALTH CENTER OR THE WICHITA COUNTY LONG TERM CARE UNIT, BOTH IN CARE OF THE FUNERAL HOME.
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