Ruth Lane Henry

The family of Ruth Lane Henry will host a delayed memorial service for Ruth at St. Paul United Methodist Church at 1144 M St. at 11 a.m., in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday, Aug. 13. Those who wish to attend virtually can stream the service at https://lives tream.com/accounts/28361637/events/9362058. The service was delayed following her death in 2021 because of the relative rarity of vaccines and treatments for Covid 19. Following is a short summary of her life. The original, full notice was posted in the Lincoln Journal-Star in Sept. 2021 and is available online at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/journalstar/name/ruth-henry-obituary?id=17449948

Ruth lived to 93, having been born in 1927. in Purdy, Mo. She lived in various places in Missouri, Kansas, and then in Hardy, Neb., (from about 1946 to 1949) and finished high school there. She was a bookkeeper at the Farmer's Union Co-op. It was in Hardy that she met her future husband, Herbert G. Henry. (Herb lived in the Hardy area from 1927 to 1946 and many relatives still lived in the area until the late 1980s.) They then lived in Lincoln and Ruth was a member of St. Paul United Methodist Church for more than 70 years and served for 40 years in the Bryan Medical Center-East Hospital as a volunteer receptionist and gift shop worker, and for a time was president of the hospital auxiliary.

She moved in 2019 to an apartment at the Knolls Senior Living facility in Lincoln. Until Herb's death in 2015, they regularly attended class reunions in Hardy.

Ruth is survived by her four children, to whom she was an exceptional mother: Gregory of Arlington, Va .; Ann of Charlottesville, Va., Mitchell of Columbus, Ohio, and Blaine of Lake Mary, Fla., and their families. She was preceded in death by her parents, Carl and Anna Lane and her husband, Herb. She had seven siblings who lived in Hardy in the 1940s and 1950s, of whom Joanne of Deshler, Neb., and Barbara of Beaumont, Texas survive her. Her ashes are interred in the Hardy cemetery alongside Herb.