Ruth Morton

RUTH MORTON

Cedar Rapids

Ruth Ellen Morton entered into eternal rest Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2015, after a well-fought battle with congestive heart failure. Funeral services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Cedar Rapids. Interment: Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery, Cedar Rapids. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 7, at the church.

Memorials may be contributed to Our Savior's Lutheran Church or ALS Foundation.

Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, is assisting the family with arrangements.

Ruth Ellen Lange was born on Aug. 4 in Scotch Grove, Iowa, the daughter of Fred Lange and Anna Bartles Lange. She attended cosmetology school in Cedar Rapids, where she met the love of her life, Donald Morton. They were united in marriage on May 23, 1948, at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Monticello. Ruth and Don made their home in Cedar Rapids during all of their 65 years together.

Ruth worked as a homemaker, and was a part of the cafeteria staff at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids for 32 years.

Her greatest joys were caring for her family, cooking, and her chocolate chip cookies.

Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Donald, in 2013; a brother in infancy and a brother, Vernon; daughter-in-law, Pamela Morton; and granddaughter, Rachel Denny.

Surviving to remember her are daughter, Julieanne (Brian) Gentz of Ottumwa; sons, Douglas (Nancy) Morton of Brookings, S.D., and Thomas (Patricia) Morton of Centennial, Colo.; 13 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Joyce Serbousek of Marion.

"Of all the gifts that life has to offer, a loving mother is the greatest of them all."

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.klosterfuneral home.com.