Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....Edwards , Ruth Urton August 2005
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Edwards, Ruth Urton     
1912 - 2005 
 
Ruth Urton Edwards 
Services: Tues., Aug. 30, 2:00 p.m. 

Ruth Urton Edwards was born in Pasadena in 1912 but soon moved to Santa 
Barbara where she completed high school. After attending USC, Santa Barbara 
City College, and UC Berkeley, she received her teaching credential and began 
her long career teaching in Lompoc and then on in Santa Barbara, Tulare, 
Visalia, Saticoy and Goleta. She was a gifted teacher who taught with patience 
and especially, praise. In fact she loved teaching reading so much that she 
volunteered to continue teaching during her summer vacations, and after she 
retired she just went back to school and kept teaching. When doctors told her 
she would have to avoid childrens germs she taught English to foreign students 
and reading to adults. In fact she continued to teach adults when she moved to 
Bakersfield in her eighties. Ruth was sure that she could teach anyone to 
read. People who knew her even briefly knew that she was very fond of and 
proud of her family in whom she took an active and constant interest. She is 
survived by her three daughters, all teachers, and their husbands, Janet and 
Michael Rodriguez of Oakland, Peggy and Dwight Ensor of Bakersfield, and 
Deborah and Larry Weller of Denver, by her grandchildren, Mark Ensor, Cindy 
Ensor Orr and John Ensor, Margaret Rodriguez, Mandy Weller Kelver and Rick 
Weller, and great- grandchildren, Ryan and Lauren Ensor, Austin and Stuart 
Orr, Molly and Gracie Ensor, and Max Kelver and Noah Weller. She was preceded 
in death by her husband of 64 years, Bill Edwards, missed him terribly after 
he passed away in 2001, and died eager to join him in Heaven. The family 
wishes to thank Hoffman Hospice for its compassionate and competent help and 
the staff and her friends at Rosewood Retirement Home for their kindness and 
love. There will be two memorial services, one at Rosewood Retirement Home on 
August 30, 2005 at 2 oclock in the Activity Room, and another, much later, in 
the Santa Barbara First Methodist Church in June 2006. 

Legacy.com

Published in the Bakersfield Californian on 8/30/2005.  


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