ALBER Wabash, Jan. 29 – Funeral services for Ruth Marie Alber, 17-year-old senior at Chippewa High School, will be held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Hoover Funeral Home. The young girl died Sunday at the Wabash County Hospital after a brief illness. She was born in Wabash, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Alber, and had spent her entire life on her parent’s farm near Wabash. Besides her parents, she is survived by one sister, Bernice and one brother, Donald at home. Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, January 30, 1940.