Ruth A. Christensen

Born: 1899

Died: 1988

Married: Robert W. Anthony, Alfred N. Christensen

Children: Robert Anthony, Mrs. Joy Douglass

Ruth A . Christensen was a nurse.

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Ruth A . Christensen

VERMONTVILLE - Ruth A. Christensen, 89, of Vermontville, died Sunday, Dec. 25, 1988, at the General Hospital of Saranac Lake.

She was born July 10, 1899, in Vermontville, the daughter of Silas and Annie (Ahearn) Lamson. She was a 1924 graduate of Methodist Hospital School of Nursing in Brooklyn. She was a registered nurse and then practiced for several years. She resumed her career in 1950 retiring in 1965 from St. Luke's Hospital in Utica. She was married to the Rev. Robert W. Anthony in 1925. He was a Methodist minister in the Northern New York Conference and they lived in Watertown, Canton and Malone and other areas of the conference. He died in 1967. She was a member of the Central United Methodist Church in Utica and had attended the Church of the Nazarene in Vermontville.

Survivors include her second husband, the Rev. Alfred N. Christensen, who she married in 1975; a son, Robert Anthony of Brooklyn; a daughter. .Mrs. Chester (Joy) Douglass of Newton, Mass.; three stepsons, Robert Christensen of West Chazy, Alfred Thomas Christensen of McLean, Va., and Lyle Christensen of Richmond, Va.; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Canard (Betty Ruth) Stairs Frederickton of New Brunswick; Mrs. Lindon (Margaret) Payne of Mooers, Mrs. Robert (Belle Marie) Woodward of Nampa, Idaho; three grandchildren; 18 step grandchildren; 20 step great grandchildren, a niece, Mrs. Hugh (June) Stewart of Renfrew, Ont.; and two nephews, Harrision Williams of Bedminster, N.J., and Alan Hogle of Lake Clear

Calling hours will be Tuesday