Ruth Smith

1919 - 1997  (77 years)

• Name	Ruth Smith
  Birth	24 Nov 1919	Lima OH
  Gender	Female
  Death	7 Jun 1997	Harrisonburg, VA
  Notes	OBITUARY Daily Press June 10, 1997 RUTH S. KRAUS HARRISONBURG ? Ruth S. Kraus, 77, of 1210 Harmony Drive, died Saturday, June 7, 1997, at her home in the afternoon. She was born Nov. 24, 1919, in Lima, Ohio, and was the daughter of the late Perry and Susanna Brenneman Smith. She was baptized at the age of 11 in the Salem Mennonite Congregation and remained an active member of the Mennonite Church. She studied Bible and music at Goshen College. She married Norman Kraus on May 16, 1945. A wife and mother, she worked as an office manager and bookkeeper at the Burkholder Dairy in Newport News, as a bookkeeper at the Durham, N.C., Public Health Department and as a secretary in the registrar?s office at Goshen College. She was an active member of her church congregation teaching Sunday school and summer Bible school. She was active in the WMSC by helping with the local migrant program and teaching nutrition courses to women in a poverty-stricken area in the city of Goshen. She also served with the Oaklawn Psychiatric Center Women?s Auxiliary and the Assembly Mennonite Congregation, of which she was cofounder and charter member. She, along with her husband, made a number of teaching and pastoral missions abroad. She and Norman served with MBM for seven years in Japan; she was the treasurer of the mission from 1982 to 1987. She moved to Harrisonburg in 1988 after her retirement and was an active member of the Park View Mennonite Church and helped with various local volunteer work. She is survived by her husband, Norman Kraus of Harrisonburg; five children, Yvonne Forman of Hasting on Hudson, N.Y., Jo Anne Okamoto of Yonkers, N.Y., John Kraus of Greensboro, N.C., Bonnie Connelly of Sparta, N.J., and Robert Kraus of Chapel Hill, N.C.; one sister, who is the last of five siblings, Clara Dangler of Continental, Ohio; and eight grandchildren. Mrs. Kraus will be cremated at the Kyger & Trobaugh Funeral Home Crematory in Harrisonburg. Interment will be private.
  Person ID	I124	Flack Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2019

  
  

  Father	Perry Smith,   b. 3 Mar 1884   d. 1962, Elida OH (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Susanna Brenneman Smith,   b. 2 Oct 1883   d. 1962, Elida OH (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	1905
  Family ID	F102	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Husband	C. Norman Kraus,   b. 20 Feb 1924, Denbigh, VA d. 6 Apr 2018, Harrisonburg, VA (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	1945
  Children	1. Yvonne Kraus   2. JoAnne Kraus   3. John Norman Kraus   4. Bonnie Kraus   5. Robert E. Kraus
  Family ID	F59	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jun 2018

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 24 Nov 1919 - Lima OH Death - 7 Jun 1997 - Harrisonburg, VA  = Link to Google Earth
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