Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Rhodes, Ruth Evelyn (Kennedy) 2006 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net August 28, 2014, 1:02 pm Greenville Daily News, 27 Dec 2006 Ruth Evelyn Rhodes, 84, of Belding, passed away Tuesday morning, Dec. 26, 2006, at Metron of Belding Nursing Home. Ruth was born April 13, 1922, in Belding, the daughter of Michael and Amy Lynch Kennedy. She graduated from Belding High School with the class of 1940. Ruth was a telephone operator with Michigan Bell, retiring in 1965. She was a member St. Joseph Catholic Church in Belding. On April 12, 1947, in Belding Ruth married George C. Rhodes. He preceded her in death in 2002. Ruth was also preceded in death by her sisters, Marjory and Dorothy; and her brothers, Michael “Bud,” Thomas and Dale. She is survived by her children and their spouses, Nancy and David Roush of Ionia, George D. and Anne Rhodes of Belding; grandchildren, Mathew, Jeffrey, Chris, Jason, Kristy, Melisa, Malinda, Justin; great-grandchildren, Devin, Addalyn, Kami, Brandan, Andrea; and her brother and sister-in-law, John and Connie Kennedy of Belding. Graveside funeral services are 2 p.m. Thursday at Rest Haven Memory Gardens, Belding, with Deacon Howard Scheid officiating. In keeping with her wishes, cremation has taken place, and there will be no visitation. Memorials may be given to St. Joseph Catholic church. Care and service were entrusted to Johnson-Feuerstein Funeral Home, Belding. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/r/rhodes27732nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb