Dawson County NeArchives Obituaries.....Carr , E. Ruth Snurr September 20, 2010 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/nefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Danny Gruber danny.gruber@gmail.com October 18, 2010, 4:38 pm Lexington Clipper-Herald Sept. 25, 2010 E. Ruth Carr, 70, of Lexington, died Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, at Tri-County Hospital in Lexington. Funeral Services were Friday, Sept. 24, 2010, at the First United Methodist Church in Lexington with the Rev. Tess Hufford officiating.  Burial was at the Greenwood Cemetery at Lexington.  Visitation was Thursday, September 23, 2010, at the Reynolds-Love Funeral Home in Lexington.  Ruth was born Sept. 11, 1940, at Sumner, to Joseph and Rose (Fajmon) Snurr.  She graduated from Lexington High School with the class of 1958 with the love of her life, Dick.   The couple was married Feb. 5, 1961, at Lexington.  Two daughters were born to this union; Crystal and Kim.  She worked for a time wrapping meat at Safeway and was a telephone operator for the telephone company.  On July 5, 1966, she was hired as a program technician for the ASCS office in Lexington and gradually worked her way up to the county executive director.  She spent 38 years there retiring on Sept. 3, 2004.    Ruth was a diagnosed with cancer in 2002, through chemo and radiation and a six-month life expectancy, she was an eight year survivor.  Survivors include her daughters, Crystal (Rodney) Sherman of Alda, Kim (Tim) Schoneman of Lexington; one brother, Leonard (Edna) Snurr of Lincoln; two sisters-in-law, Jeanne Hopkins of Des Moines, Iowa, Linda (Rich) Kennicutt of Lexington; five grandchildren, Stacey Schoneman of Omaha, Tyler Schoneman and Nicole Clemens, both of Lincoln, Tanner Carr and Matt Sherman both of Alda and mother-in-law, Dorothy Carr of Lexington.  Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Dick on Aug. 20, 2010; one sister, Margaret and one brother, Clarence.  File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ne/dawson/obits/c/carr392gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nefiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb