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February 13, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Friday, February 16, 2018. A funeral service will be held immediately following the time of visitation and begin in the funeral home at 7 PM.
Ruth Elliott Walz, age 95 of Wayne, pass peacefully on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
UPDATE: A funeral service will be held at 7 PM on Friday, February 16 at the funeral home following visitation.
Ruth E. Walz (Sullivan) age 95, of Wayne, passed peacefully on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
Ruth was born to Joseph and Ethel Sullivan in Battle Creek Michigan. She was raised at 390 Cliff Street in Battle Creek and graduated from Battle Creek High School with the Class of 1940.
Ruth married her high school sweetheart Gerald Walz. Gerald was attending Michigan Tech’s College of Engineering in Houghton, Michigan and entered the ROTC program. The United States entered World War II and Gerald, with his new wife, was soon on his way to flight training school and was certified as a flight engineer for a B 29 bomber. He would be transferred overseas and Ruth returned home to live with her parents in Battle Creek. Their first born was a war baby named Gerald who was born in Battle Creek while his father was away at war. After his service Gerald returned from the war and the GI Bill permitted him to attend his college of choice to finish his degree. Gerald was soon enrolled at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut where he received his Degree in Electrical Engineering. Out of college the young couple moved to Moline, Illinois where they would be blessed with two more children Karen and Sue. Gerald’s work would have them move to New Jersey where they lived in the Smoke Rise section of Kinnelon for about ten years before returning to Battle Creek.
Ruth will be remembered as a very loving, sweet, gentle and kind person with a heart of gold. She had an amazing sense of humor who could always beat you to the punch. Ruth was truly a beautiful person inside and out. One of her favorite things to do was to go clothes shopping with her best friend Dolores to buy clothes to then again, go clothes shopping. She was a championship bowler and bridge player. She loved listening to Elvis Presley and watching Tiger Woods. For many years she kept a huge vegetable garden and loved growing flowers. She was also an animal lover and had many dogs and cats through the years. One very special dog who was close to her heart was named Blackie who was her companion after she lost her beloved husband. Ruth was an amazing and dedicated wife, fantastic mother and a phenomenal cook. No one could ever come close to her Thanksgiving feast. She made the best pot roast, beef stroganoff, and there was just something special about her imperial crab recipe that can’t be duplicated.
Ruth was the devoted wife of fifty-two years to the late Gerald Walz (1994); a devoted mother of Gerald and Deborah Walz of Denville, Karen Albano and her late husband Benjamin Albano (1996) and her loving partner Alan Barone of Wayne, and Sue Charbonneau and her husband Gary of Clearwater, FL; she was the loved sister of Elliott Sullivan of Battle Creek, MI and his late wife Millie, the late Joseph Sullivan and his late wife Doreen, and the late Mary Jane Poole and her late husband Bill; she was the cherished grandmother of eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
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Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Friday, February 16, 2018. A funeral service will be held immediately following the time of visitation and begin in the funeral home at 7 PM.
February 13, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family from 4-7 PM on Friday, February 16, 2018. A funeral service will be held immediately following the time of visitation and begin in the funeral home at 7 PM.
Ruth Elliott Walz, age 95 of Wayne, pass peacefully on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
UPDATE: A funeral service will be held at 7 PM on Friday, February 16 at the funeral home following visitation.
Ruth E. Walz (Sullivan) age 95, of Wayne, passed peacefully on Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
Ruth was born to Joseph and Ethel Sullivan in Battle Creek Michigan. She was raised at 390 Cliff Street in Battle Creek and graduated from Battle Creek High School with the Class of 1940.
Ruth married her high school sweetheart Gerald Walz. Gerald was attending Michigan Tech’s College of Engineering in Houghton, Michigan and entered the ROTC program. The United States entered World War II and Gerald, with his new wife, was soon on his way to flight training school and was certified as a flight engineer for a B 29 bomber. He would be transferred overseas and Ruth returned home to live with her parents in Battle Creek. Their first born was a war baby named Gerald who was born in Battle Creek while his father was away at war. After his service Gerald returned from the war and the GI Bill permitted him to attend his college of choice to finish his degree. Gerald was soon enrolled at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut where he received his Degree in Electrical Engineering. Out of college the young couple moved to Moline, Illinois where they would be blessed with two more children Karen and Sue. Gerald’s work would have them move to New Jersey where they lived in the Smoke Rise section of Kinnelon for about ten years before returning to Battle Creek.
Ruth will be remembered as a very loving, sweet, gentle and kind person with a heart of gold. She had an amazing sense of humor who could always beat you to the punch. Ruth was truly a beautiful person inside and out. One of her favorite things to do was to go clothes shopping with her best friend Dolores to buy clothes to then again, go clothes shopping. She was a championship bowler and bridge player. She loved listening to Elvis Presley and watching Tiger Woods. For many years she kept a huge vegetable garden and loved growing flowers. She was also an animal lover and had many dogs and cats through the years. One very special dog who was close to her heart was named Blackie who was her companion after she lost her beloved husband. Ruth was an amazing and dedicated wife, fantastic mother and a phenomenal cook. No one could ever come close to her Thanksgiving feast. She made the best pot roast, beef stroganoff, and there was just something special about her imperial crab recipe that can’t be duplicated.
Ruth was the devoted wife of fifty-two years to the late Gerald Walz (1994); a devoted mother of Gerald and Deborah Walz of Denville, Karen Albano and her late husband Benjamin Albano (1996) and her loving partner Alan Barone of Wayne, and Sue Charbonneau and her husband Gary of Clearwater, FL; she was the loved sister of Elliott Sullivan of Battle Creek, MI and his late wife Millie, the late Joseph Sullivan and his late wife Doreen, and the late Mary Jane Poole and her late husband Bill; she was the cherished grandmother of eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
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