Ruth A. (Reed) Steiner
Ruth A. Steiner, age 84, of Taylortown Road, Mansfield, died Thursday, January 29, 2009 at the Crestwood Care Center in Shelby.
She was born June 15, 1924 in Plymouth, Ohio the daughter of the late Brice N. and Mary Alberta (Hoffman) Reed. Ruth was a 1942 graduate of Shelby High School and was a homemaker. Prior to her marriage to Robert F. Steiner, Ruth had been employed as a secretary at Central School and Wilkens Air Force Depot. She was a member of First Lutheran Church. Ruth enjoyed playing cards with her family and friends. Affectionately known as Auntie Ruth to many, she especially enjoyed family get-togethers and loved spending time with her grandchildren.
Ruth is survived by her children: Beth A. and Timothy Fraizer of Mansfield, Robert D. Rob and Louann Steiner of Mansfield, Michael K. and Lisa Steiner of Columbus; 7 grandchildren: Lori Fraizer, Karen Fraizer, Katie Steiner, Krista Steiner, Christina Steiner, Jennifer Steiner, Brice Steiner. She was preceded in death by her husband: Robert F. Steiner in 1986, a son: Jeffrey L. Steiner, 2 grandsons: Andrew and Robert Steiner, 3 brothers: Clarence A. Reed, Garland M. Reed and John H. Reed, 4 sisters: Beatrice Moore, Thelma Brown, Doris Pfahler and Betty Lantz.
Friends may call on Sunday, February 1, 2009 from 2-6 PM at the Turner Funeral Home, 168 West Main Street, Shelby where funeral services will be conducted on Monday at 10:30 AM with Rev. Steven C. Bond, officiating. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Memorials may be made to First Lutheran Church, Crestwood Care Center Activities Fund or Hospice of North Central Ohio. On-line condolences may be made by visiting penwellturner.com
The family would like to thank Dr. Chawla and Crestwood Care Center for taking excellent care of Ruth.
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Family_of: Ruth Steiner
Your_Name: Bob and Linda Simmons
Date: 09-01-30
Time: 00:32:50 -0500
Condolence:
Our deepest sympathy in your time of sorrow. Remembering all the great times that our parents spent riding motorcycles together. I have great memories of Ruth when she would stop in at Paul’s Drive-Inn. I count it very special to me to have been one of her nurses at Crestwood Care Center. Thank you for giving me that opportunity that you entrusted her to us for her care. May God bring you comfort at this time and in the days ahead. I just want to honor your whole family for the love and support you showed Ruth throughout her illness.
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Family_of: Ruth Steiner
Your_Name: Gaye Will Shira
Date: 09-01-31
Condolence:
My prayers & hugs to you all. Just this week I was going through old pictures and found some of us swimming in your family pool. What fun we had. I remember your mom as being very kind and caring.
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Family_of: Ruth Steiner
Your_Name: Gene Burrer
Date: 09-01-31
Condolence:
My deepest sympathy to the famiy of Ruth. I first met Ruth while playing euchre. She made many friends through that outlet and surely I speak for all of we card players in saying she will truly be missed by so many of us. Perhaps you can find a bit of comfort in knowing this. Our thoughts and prayers are with you during these days of bereavement. Sincerely – Gene Burrer
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Family_of: Ruth Steiner
Your_Name: Robt. & Rosanne Conley
Date: 09-01-31
Condolence:
Sorry for your lose. Losing a parent is never easy. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your families.
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Family_of: Rob and Louann Steiner
Your_Name: Eileen (Metzger) Swain
Date: 09-01-31
Time: 21:13:47 -0500
Condolence:
So sorry to hear about your Mother’s death.
You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Love, Eileen
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Family_of: Aunt Ruth Steiner
Your_Name: Sam
Date: 09-01-31
Time: 11:39:10 -0500
Condolence:
It is said that, All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. But how do you harvest one story from the field of memories that is my Aunt Ruth when she played a part in every childhood memory I possess. Her candy cupboard no child could walk by is as much a part of summers past as bright sunshine, a wide green lawn with a brick barbeque, and the beckoning little pool behind a red rickety fence. Aunt Ruth was my Pied Piper who promised mini-bike rides over worn paths around the barn, china teacups with saucers only for show, endless sugary boxes of cereal cupboarded with bags of potato chips, Tawny rides while Topaz cried over the creaking of a leather saddle, a mystery phone that rang for more than just one house, an abundance of toys, a pool table, a train, cousins whose family connections were too complicated to define, a tire swing beckoning from her sisters picture window, a man who delivered milk instead of a trip to the grocery, perfume from purple lilac bushes drifting in a open window, a sea of glass bottled soda pop that came in all the colors of spring. Aunt Ruth, with her steady patience, who taught me – to iron a mound of laundry piled in a spare room, card games so I could play at the kitchen table next time, to turn a million little puzzle pieces in front of the TV into the picture on the box, to embroider a flower appliquéd hanky with a sample of every silk when you couldn’t choose one color or just to recognize the romance novels Aunt Thelma already read.
My Auntie Ruth weaves like a thread through every day that made me. I am heartbroken that I write this about her instead of to her. This moment in time is only bearable because I, stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be and I see how she is part of eternity in me, my mom and all of us she loved so well.
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Family_of: Ruth Steiner
Your_Name: Marcy Reed,,, STNA @ Crestwood Care Center
Date: 09-02-01
Condolence:
My thoughts and prayers are with you in this time of loss. Your mother was a truely ONE special Woman!!! I only know her for a very short time but the time with her was every bit a joy. She keep the nights 3rd shift a little less lonely. Her smile and thankfulness is one of a kind! Again, my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family in this time of loss.. She is already greatly missed. God Bless you all!!! Marcy Reed STNA @ Crestwood Care Center. Station 3.
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Family_of: Ruth Steiner
Your_Name: Marsheela Bennett
Date: 09-02-01
Condolence:
Beth, Rob, Mike and families:
Sorry to hear of the loss of your Mom. I have many good memories
of our summer afternoons at the pool many years ago.
Sorry we could not be there today.
Don and Marsheela (Weisbarth) Bennett