Kern County CA Obituary Project Obituaries.....(Vorhees) Piper , Lillian "Ruth"  June 11, 2005
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The Bakersfield Californian 
Piper, Lillian "Ruth"     
1912 - 2005 
 
Lillian (Ruth) Piper 
August 9, 1912 - June 11, 2005 

Graveside services will be held on Friday, June 17, 2005, at 10:00 a.m., at 
Hillcrest Memorial Park for Ruth Piper, longtime Bakersfield resident, who 
passed away June 11, 2005. Ruth was born August 9, 1912, at University Place 
Hospital, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Her parents were Charles M. Vorhees and 
Lillian M. Mathews. When she was six weeks old Ruth moved to Seneca, Kansas, 
with her parents to the home of her grandfather. They built their home on land 
that was homesteaded by her grandfather after the Civil War. She attended 
Seneca public Schools and graduated from Seneca Public High School in 1930. 
She also attended Washburn University at Topeka, Kansas, receiving a Kansas 
State Teaching Credential. She taught school in Centralia, Morrill and Seneca, 
Kansas until moving to Bakersfield in 1938. She married Dorus H. Piper Jr. on 
June 9, 1938, in Bakersfield, where they lived their entire married life. Ruth 
worked most of her life. She was part owner and operator of a business college 
from 1940 to 1943. She also worked as a bookkeeper for Ray Mann Distributing 
Co. from 1950 to 1972. Afterward, she performed part-time telemarketing until 
the age of 84, when she officially retired. Ruth was preceded in death by her 
husband, Dorus H. Piper, Jr., who passed in 1980, brother, Charles Vorhees Jr. 
and sister, Elizabeth (Vorhees) Wempe. Ruth is survived by a brother, Samuel 
Vorhees and a sister, Carol (Vorhees) Diffey of Bakersfield. Ruth is also 
survived by her three children and their respective spouses, Jerry L. and Sone 
Piper of Bakersfield, Mary Jane (Piper) and Jerry J. Hodges of Olathe, Kansas, 
Robert E. and Terrie Piper of Bakersfield, six grandchildren, one 
stepgranddaughter and eleven great-grandchildren. Visitation begins Thursday, 
June 16, from 2:00 8:00 p.m., at Hopson-Anspach Mortuary. 

Hopson-Anspach Family Mortuary 
Legacy.com

Published in the Bakersfield Californian on 6/14/2005.  


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