Mary (Chew) Ruhl

1912 - 2012  (100 years)

• Name	Mary (Chew) Ruhl
  Birth	1912	New Jersey, USA
  Gender	Female
  Death	15 Apr 2012	Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Graybill Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Elm, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I26403	Tulpehocken Genealogy | Hackman
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2022

  
  

  Father	John Brubaker Ruhl,   b. 22 May 1878, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 16 Aug 1960, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Mary Catharine Elser,   b. 23 Oct 1878, Pennsylvania, USA d. 9 May 1953 (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F8685	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Melvin Carlton Chew,   b. 28 Aug 1911, Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, USA d. 22 Jun 2000, Lititz, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 88 years)
  Children	1. Living
  Family ID	F8686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Jun 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Mary Ruhl Chew, 100, of Lancaster, passed away at Brethren Village on April 15, 2012. She was the daughter of the late Mary Catherine Elser and John Brubaker Ruhl, and was the wife of the late Melvin Carlton Chew. She attended Airy Hill one- room school, graduated in 1934 from Atlantic City High School in NJ and from Trenton State Teachers College in 1938 with a Bachelor of Science degree in education as a member of Phi Delta Kappa. She taught three years in Bridgeton High School (NJ) commercial department until 1941 when she married Melvin Carlton Chew in Pitman, NJ. The couple moved to Hackensack where he began a thirty-year career in public school education and where their daughter, Barbara Ann, was born. Subsequent moves brought them to PA in 1953 where she continued as homemaker, enjoying such activities as gardening, sewing and reading while working as church secretary in the Doylestown Methodist Church involved in Womens' Society, Sunday School teaching and annual conference. They retired to the hills of Tioga County in 1976 where they built their own home, leaving it in May 1993 to enter Fieldcrest at Brethren Village and continue a tradition of volunteer service there. She is survived by a daughter, Barbara Ann Sefranek of Allentown and was predeceased by her husband in 2000, by a brother, Henry E. Ruhl, and a sister, Alice ­Bender. In January, she celebrated her 100th birthday with close friends around her. Memorial Services will be held at Brethren Village Chapel on May 5th at 1:00 P.M. Contributions may be made in her memory to the Brethren Village Endowment Fund, 3001 Lititz Pike, Lancaster, PA 17606. Lancaster Sunday News 4/22/2012

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88942284/mary-chew.