Obituary for Ruth A. Page
GENEVA- Ruth A. Page, age 75 of Geneva passed away at home on Friday July 17, 2020.
Friends and family may call from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday (July 22) at the McGuigan & Bero Funeral Home 45 High St. Geneva. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday (July 23) at 1:00 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church. Burial will be at the convenience of the family.
Ruth was born on December 23, 1944 in Erie, PA the daughter of the late Howard and Alice Maude (Arsenault) Page.
Ruth graduated from St. Benedicts Academy in 1962 and Mercyhurst College with a BS in Home Economics and secondary education in 1966. She continued her education and received a master’s degree in Home Economics at Arizona State University in Tempe Az. as well as a master’s degree in Spirituality from Gonzaga University in Spokane Wash.
Ruth made good use of her education, first teaching in Greece City Schools and then after finishing her master’s degree in the Rochester School District as well as working with the under privileged, teaching them home making skills.
She employed her Masters in Spirituality by serving in ministry as a pastoral associate at St. Columba/St. Patrick in Caledonia, Livingston County, then at St. Joseph’s in Livonia and finally at St. Stephen’s in Geneva.
She is survived by her brother Richard and his wife Vicki, and many aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews from coast to coast.
Ruth was preceded in death by both her father and mother, as well as six of her eight siblings, Priscilla Margret, Helen Louise, William, David, Judith, and her twin which died in the womb.
Friends and family may call from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday (July 22) at the McGuigan & Bero Funeral Home 45 High St. Geneva. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Thursday (July 23) at 1:00 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Roman Catholic Church. Burial will be at the convenience of the family.
Ruth was born on December 23, 1944 in Erie, PA the daughter of the late Howard and Alice Maude (Arsenault) Page.
Ruth graduated from St. Benedicts Academy in 1962 and Mercyhurst College with a BS in Home Economics and secondary education in 1966. She continued her education and received a master’s degree in Home Economics at Arizona State University in Tempe Az. as well as a master’s degree in Spirituality from Gonzaga University in Spokane Wash.
Ruth made good use of her education, first teaching in Greece City Schools and then after finishing her master’s degree in the Rochester School District as well as working with the under privileged, teaching them home making skills.
She employed her Masters in Spirituality by serving in ministry as a pastoral associate at St. Columba/St. Patrick in Caledonia, Livingston County, then at St. Joseph’s in Livonia and finally at St. Stephen’s in Geneva.
She is survived by her brother Richard and his wife Vicki, and many aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews from coast to coast.
Ruth was preceded in death by both her father and mother, as well as six of her eight siblings, Priscilla Margret, Helen Louise, William, David, Judith, and her twin which died in the womb.