Submitte by: Dan Rich
Feb. 17, 1922 - Dec. 19, 1994
South Bend Tribune 12/19/1994
MISHAWAKA - Ruth M. Gerard, 72, of St. Paul's Retirement Community, South Bend, formerly of Mishawaka, died at 2:05 a.m. today in St. Joseph Hospital after an illness. Mrs. Gerard was born Feb. 17, 1922, in Mishawaka and was a lifelong area resident.
On May 20, 1944, in San Luis Rey Mission, Calif., as Ruth Schindler, she married Charles R. Gerard. He died Feb. 26, 1973. She is survived by a daughter, Cherie Waller of Sanford, Fla.; two sons, Ronald of Monroe, La., and Richard of Hartford City, Ind.; and three grandchildren.
She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church and Tri Kappa Sorority and was a graduate of Saint Mary's College.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Thallemer-Goethals Funeral Home. Burial will be in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola.
Friends may call from 5 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association.