Peoria County IL Archives Obituaries.....Markman-Thrush, Ruth  April 11, 1961
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Peoria Journal Star Apr 12, 1961
Mrs. R. Thrush, Hotel Owner dies at 69
The funeral service for Mrs. Ruth M. Thrush, 69, of 220 W. Starr St. co-owner 
of the Yale Hotel and the former Arion Hotel until 1955, will be at 1 pm  
Friday at the Ensley & Sons Funeral Home 1017 Stanley St. Burial will be in 
Smithville Cemetery. The Rev. Scott Huson, of the Howett Street Christian 
Church Church will officiate. Friend may call from 4 to 9 pm Thursday at the 
funeral home. 
Mrs. Thrush died at 6:55 am Tuesday at Proctor Hospital where she had been a 
patient for three days. She had owed and operated the two hotels for 18 years 
withe husband Frank whom she married in Peoria in 1921.  
The Yale Hotel located at 332 SW Jefferson Ave while the Arion, which was 
destroyed by fire in 1959 was at 110 W. 1st Ave.
 Mrs. Thrush was born July 19, 1891 at Bushnell the daughter of Thomas and 
Rose Howell Markman. A Member of the ECB Church of Astoria, She also was a 
Member of the Acacia Chapter OES, and she formerly was a member of the VFW 
Post 2602 Auxiliary, Peoria Heights.
Surviving are her husband, two sons, Thomas Bair, Peoria and Frank Thrush, 
Peoria: a daughter Mrs. Kathryn Schmidt, Wood River, Ill.; Four grandchildren 
and two great grandchildren. Three brothers and two sister preceded her in 
death.

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