Ruth Isabelle BarnettWABASH – Ruth Isabelle Barnett, 98, of Wabash, died at 6:37 pm, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, at Peabody Healthcare Center in North Manchester.
She was born Aug. 29, 1921, in Wabash County, to Henry and Rosa K. Hipskind Stouffer.
Ruth was a 1939 graduate of Linlawn High School. She married L. Milton "Bud" Barnett in Wabash County on Aug. 9, 1941; he died May 3, 2007. Ruth retired from First National Bank in Wabash after 23 years. She was a member of the Wabash Friends Church. Ruth was a Wabash County Hospital Auxiliary Volunteer for many years. She enjoyed cross stitching, playing scrabble, making cracker jack and having cracker jack parties, pie baking and traveling to Minnesota, with her husband Bud, in the fall.
She is survived by her daughter, Joan B. Younce, of Warsaw; two grandchildren, Michael R. (Ann Marie) Younce, of Superior, Colo., and Emily B. (Ryan) Kennedy, of Valparaiso; four great-grandchildren, Alexandra Younce and Matthew Younce, both of Superior; and Cade Kennedy and Ian Kennedy, both of Valparaiso; and her sister, Frances Stewart, of Monon.
She was also preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Judy Barnett; two brothers, Joe Stouffer and Robert Stouffer; and three sisters, Katherine Vrooman, Elizabeth Miller and Alice Petry.
Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, 2019, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Ave., Wabash, with David Phillips officiating. Burial will be in Friends Cemetery, Wabash. Friends may call from 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
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Memorials to Wabash Friends Church.
The memorial guest book for Ruth may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.
