Ruth Genevieve Hughes

Ruth G. Hughes Ruth Genevieve (Dressler) Hughes passed into the presence of her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Tuesday, March 18, 2008, at age 93. Ruth was born November 1, 1914, the fifth consecutive daughter to Sandhills-farming parents near Brunswick, Nebraska.  By 1920 her father gave up farming and they moved to town.  Ruth was valedictorian of her 1932 class at Brunswick High School. Ruth used her scholarship to enroll at Wayne State Teacher?s College, Wayne, Nebraska, in September 1932.  In Wayne, she met her first husband.  She married Ivan Alonzo Hart on August 21, 1933, at Marysville, Kansas.  Ivan was killed in an auto accident on October 29, 1933.  Ruth left college to pay the costs of his death. Ruth remained in Wayne and met James Wallace Hughes to whom she was married on November 21, 1937.  She was baptized on October 15, 1944, at First Baptist Church, Wayne, Nebraska.  After starting their family, Ruth returned to college in 1947 graduating with an AB in Education in 1949, and an MA in Education in 1962.  She began a full-time teaching career in 1954; she taught in Winside, Wakefield, and Belden, Nebraska.  At Belden, she was also the High School Principal. In 1963 Ruth and Wally moved to Bainbridge Island, Washington, where Ruth taught H.S. English until 1973. In 2007 their son moved them to Prescott, Arizona, so he could help care for their needs.  Ruth and Wally celebrated seventy years of marriage on November 21, 2007. Ruth was preceded in death by her parents; Harry M. and Eunice Gertrude Dressler, her five sisters; Edna (Dressler) Stephenson, Marcia Dressler, Mary (Dressler) Norman, Eva Dressler, and Lela (Dressler) Blakeney, her brother; Arthur Dressler, one son: William Hughes, and her daughter; Barbara (Hughes) Dappen. Ruth is survived by her husband, J. Wallace Hughes of Prescott, AZ, one son, James A. Hughes and his wife, Judy, of Prescott, AZ, daughter-in-law, Lynda (White) Hughes of Salem, OR, son-in-law, Glen Dappen and his wife, Bonnie, of Lincoln, NE, her sister-in-law, June (Frady) Dressler of Ankeny, IA, nine grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. The Memorial Service will be held at First Baptist Church, Prescott, AZ, on Saturday, April 5, 2008, at 10:30 AM in the Solid Rock Center Chapel.