02/06/1924
Name: Ruby Agnes (Garnett) Ryerson
Born: 1895
Father: George F. Garnett
Mother: Jennie Alice Powell
Sibbling: Gladys Hazel Garnett (1897-1952)
The many Knoxville friends of Mrs. Ruby Garnett Ryerson will be grieved to learn of her death, which occurred at Le Grand, Oregon, on Wednesday, February 6 following a surgical operation performed for the removal of a tumor of the stomach.
Ruby Garnett was formerly a popular Knoxville girl. She graduated from the local high school with the class of 1916, taught for two years in our country schools, and by her noble
life and cheerful disposition endeared herself to both the pupils and their parents.
On June 1, 1919, at the residence of William Jenkins, in this city, she was united in marriage to Mr. Charles E. Ryerson, a splendid young American soldier who had
served in the World War and was wounded while with the armies in France.
They established their home at Enterprise, Oregon, where Mr. Ryerson’s people resided and for almost five years had lived a happy and contented life, unmarred by trouble or sorrow until the wife’s late sickness came on and next came the eternal blight thrown over the home by the hand of death.
No longer than January 23, Mrs. Ryerson (who for two years had a happy home with Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins), wrote Mrs. Jenkins that she and her husband had happy anticipations for celebrating the fifth anniversary of their wedding on the coming June 1st.
But it was not to be. She quietly passed to the Great Beyond on the day mentioned, death taking place at the Le Grand, Oregon hospital, where the operation was performed.