Submitted by: Dan Rich

South Bend Tribune 3/12/2006

Ruth M. Wolford

Feb. 10, 1922 -- March 7, 2006

Ruth Marie Wolford, 84, of Alamogordo, NM, passed away on Tuesday, March 7, 2006.

She was born Ruth Marie Gropp in Mishawaka, IN, on February 10, 1922. She passed away in Gerald Champion Hospital of Alamogordo following complications from pneumonia and heart failure.

Her husband, Arthur C. Wolford, native of South Bend, IN, survives her. She is also survived by her daughter, Jacqueline (Henry) Truax of Alamogordo; her son, Bruce Henry of Lugoff, SC; and her daughter, Carole (Henry) Gehret of Corona, CA.

Memorial services were held in St. John's Episcopal Church of Alamogordo on Friday, March 10, 2006. Cremation took place under the direction of the Alamogordo Funeral Home.

Editor: Her first husband was Herman R. Henry who died 10/21/1988 in Walkerton