Ruth Woodle

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Ruth Woodle12/12/1986
Services for Ruth Helene Kenney, 83, of Knoxville, who died Dec. 12, 1986 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, were held Dec. 15 it Bybee and Davis Funeral Home.
Interment was in Graceland Cemetery.

Rev. K. Wayne Hoehns officiated at the services. Music was provided by Janes Kidder, organist, and Dawn McKay, soloist.
Pallbearers were Steve Flanagan, Terry Huntrods, Park Woodle, Larry DeJong, Bob Rinehart, and Danny Dennison.
Mrs. Kenney was born Oct. 29, 1903, the daughter of Frank C. and Nancy Anna Snyder Woodle.

A life long resident of Marion County, she graduated from high school in 1923 and later that year married Thurman Dennison.
To this union one daughter was born, followed by the death of
Dennison 18 months later.

In 1933, she married Norris Kenney.
She taught school at numerous schools in the county, including, New Albany, Fillmore, Maple Grove, Georgia Ridge, Blaine, lower grades at Harvey, and was the last teacher to teach at Pleasant Ridge School which is now the Little Red School House located at Marion County Park. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Education from Drake University in 1959.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the Mary Circle, a member and past president of the Knoxville Women's Club, D.A.R., D.U.V., Rebekah Lodge, Marion County Historical Society, Knoxville Area Retired Teachers Association, and the Farm Bureau.

She Was also a member of the Iowa State Genealogical Society and was listed in the 1981-82 edition of Who's Who in American Women.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1968 and her parents.

She is survived by one daughter, Mildred Flanagan of Des Moines; two granddaughters, Ruth Huntrods, of St. Paul, Minn and Kathy Ramsay of Anchorage, Alaska; one grandson, Steve Flanagan of Ankeny; five great grandchildren; one brother, Raymond of Knoxville; and one nephew, Park Woodle of Knoxville.

A memorial has been established to the radio Ministry of the First United Methodist Church.