Albers, Ruth Rosette (Jensen)

Ruth Rosette (Jensen) Albers, 93, died Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012, at the Keystone Nursing Care Center, where she had been a resident since December 2009. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, at St. John Lutheran Church in Keystone, with the Rev. B. Andrew Wright officiating. Interment will be at Keystone Cemetery. Friends may call at Phillips Funeral Home in Keystone from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Memorials may be given to the Herbert H. Roehr Parkinson's disease Research Foundation, the Keystone Cemetery Association or a charity of the donor's choice.

Ruth was born Jan. 31, 1919, on the Luzerne family farm, the daughter of Gustav F. and Rosette (Rieck) Jensen. On Aug. 16, 1940, she was united in marriage to Leonard Albers at St. Paul's Lutheran Parsonage in Luzerne. The couple farmed the Albers family farm near Keystone and moved to town in 1972. Leonard preceded Ruth in death on March 19, 1975.

Ruth was a member of St. John Lutheran Church and the St. John Quilters. She enjoyed bus trips with friends to various parts of the United States and was a member of several card clubs. Ruth loved to crochet afghans as wedding gifts for her great-nieces and great-nephews.

She is survived by two nieces, Alice (Ray) Junge of Keystone and Carolyn (Larry) Sayers of Dayton, Ohio; two nephews, Keith (Sally) Tatge of Kingman, Ariz., and Wayne (Betty) Tatge of Temple, Texas; her niece-in-law, Daisy Roehr of Marion; her sister-in-law, Madora Jensen of Williamsburg; and numerous great- nieces and great-nephews.

In addition to her parents and her husband, Leonard, she was preceded in death by her children, Beverly and James, at birth; her sisters, Viola (Carl) Roehr and Dorothy (Earl) Tatge; brother, Arnold Jensen; niece, Mardene Mackey; nephew, Herb Roehr; and her in-laws, Herman and Elsie Albers.

Condolences may be left at www.phillipsfuneralhomes.com

Published Oct. 22, 2012 in The Gazette