Ruth Aikman Ramsay
1912-2004

A remembrance ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30 at Brune & Buck 
Mortuary, 325 W. Elm St. in Bishop, for Ruth Aikman Ramsay.  A graveside service 
at the East Line Street Cemetery will follow immediately afterward.

Born Ruth Henrietta Aikman in Ines, Kansas on April 30, 1912 as the fourth of 
five children to Claude and Anna Aikman, Ruthie died Oct. 24, 2004 in Minden, 
Nev.  She was 92.  She had been in poor health and died of apparent heart 
failure.

Ruth graduated first in her class from the Business College of Wichita in Kansas 
before re-locating to Long Beach, in 1932.  Always an optimist, Ruth was 
consistently employed during the Great Depression, survived the Long Beach 
Earthquake of 1933 and shortly after met the love of her life, Edmond Ramsay.  
They were married on Nov. 9, 1940 and remained deeply in love for the next 40 
years.  Ed and Ruth often vacationed with their daughters in the Owens Valley 
and surrounding Sierra, eventually settling in Bishop in 1959.

Ruth spent several yeas in the early 1960s as the bookkeeper at the Bishop Union 
High School.  She gladly stayed late with students making up detention hours in 
order to graduate.  Her considerable administrative skills were later used in 
support of the medical offices of Doctors Scott and Sheldon during the late 
1960s and early 1970s.  She returned to the high school to complete her 
professional career and retired in 1977 along with her husband, to Gardnerville, 
Nev.

She was a highly skilled seamstress, an accomplished pianist, a member of the 
Order of the Eastern Star and served as president of the Business Professional 
Women's organization during her long affiliation with that group.

"Ruthie" will always be remembered for her unconditional love and devotion to 
her late husband and to her family.  She found the good in everyone and had a 
wonderful sense of humor.  Her trust and faith in Jesus Christ was mirrored in 
her loyalty to friends and kindness to strangers.  "She was our hero," family 
members said.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Edmond, and her eldest daughter, 
Jacqueline.

Ruthie is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Craig King; daughers, 
Lizabeth Ramsay and Robyn Ramsay Hooker; grandchildren Claudia Kink-Rick, Lisa 
Daggett Petersen, Robba'Lee King Sweeney, Tina Verna Peach, Carl Edmond King, 
Jill King-Capps, Tonyia Verna Brewer, Vincent Gurzi, Michael Faley and Cori 
Ramsay Hooker; 10 great-children and three great-great grandchildren.

Those wishing to remember Ruth are encouraged to make a donation to the Macular 
Degeneration Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 531313 Henderson NV 89053 or log on to 
www.eyesight.org

The Inyo Register
Bishop, Inyo County, California
Thursday, October 28, 2004 – Page A-2.

Transcribed by Laura M. Bybee for Inyo County GenWeb, 3 June 2005