Submitted by: Dan Rich

Ruby J. Clase

March 26, 1916 - March 20, 2000

South Bend Tribune 3/24/2000

Ruby J. Clase, 83, of East Battell, Mishawaka, Ind., passed away at 7:44 a.m. on Monday, March 20, in St. Joseph Community Hospital, Mishawaka. Ruby was born in Kentucky on March 26, 1916, to Otis and Ava (Sparks) Young, who have both preceded her in death. She was also preceded in death by five brothers, Jesse Young, Robert Young, Roy Young, Carl Young and Bruce Young; and by a sister, Grace Gibson.

On June 20, 1939, in Liberty, Ind., as Ruby J. Young, she married William F. Chase, who also preceded her in death on Oct. 3, 1985. She retired from Uniroyal after 20 years of service. She was a member of Southside General Baptist Church, Mishawaka.

She is survived by a son, Richard (Jane) Oligee of Elkhart, Ind.; five grandchildren, Gregory (Sue) Oligee of New Paris, Ind., and their four children, and their grandchild, Pamela (Larry) Tice of Elkhart, and their child, Dana (Richard) Mehl of Goshen, Ind., and their three children, Eric (Brenda) Oligee of Elkhart, and their two children, and Rachel (Peter) Ciesiolka of Niles, Mich., and their two children.

Services were at 2 p.m. on Thursday, March 23, in the Bubb Funeral Chapel North, 3910 North Main Street, Mishawaka. Rev. Adolph Lacy officiated. Burial followed at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola, Ind.