Submitted by: Dan Rich

Ruth Robinson

Aug. 6, 1908 - Feb. 10, 1995

South Bend Tribune 2/12/1995

MISHAWAKA - Ruth Persell Robinson, 86, of West LaSalle Avenue, died at 10:50 p.m. Friday in Meridian-Cardinal Nursing Center, South Bend. Mrs. Robinson had been a home economics teacher at Penn-Harris-Madison schools until her retirement. She was born Aug. 6, 1908, in Filer, Idaho.

On June 1, 1940, in Harper, Kan., as Ruth Persell, she married Dr. Kenneth Robinson. He survives with a son, Paul of Buenos Vista, Colo.; two grandchildren; and a sister, Rhoda Persell Foster of Glendale, Calif. She taught at elementary and secondary schools in Nebraska and Kansas, also at Taylor University and Seattle Pacific University. She was a licensed minister in the Missionary Church and held pastorates in Kansas, California and Indiana.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Bubb Funeral Chapel North. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Bethel College.