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Funeral services for Ruth Othelia Haefner will be at 10:30 AM Friday, October 15, 2010 at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Mobridge.
Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery under the direction of Kesling Funeral Home of Mobridge. Visitation will start at 3 PM Thursday at the funeral home with a Prayer service at 7 PM.
Ruth passed away peacefully October 12, 2010 at the Mobridge Regional Hospital in Mobridge, South Dakota.
Ruth Baer was born November 5, 1932 to Frederick Christian and Mary [Gumke Buckholz] Baer in Mobridge, South Dakota. She spent her childhood in Mobridge and attended Lincoln School on Grand Crossing and Beadle School on 4th Ave. West.
She worked off and on as a waitress at the Chicago Cafe for Joe the Chinaman and the Sereno Cafe, for the Kramwald Brothers.
Ruth Baer met Arthur Emil Haefner when he was delivering groceries for the Travis Food Market. They married Oct. 2, 1948 at Selby, SD then made their first home in Mobridge until, August 1956 when they moved 20 miles southwest of Mobridge, onto the Grover Hand Ranch, located in Dewey County.
Through the years, Ruth helped in 4-H work with her children and was active in foster care. Art and Ruth cared for 22 foster children. They joined the Seventh Day Adventist Church in April 1960 where Ruth held the office of Dorcas secretary and church clerk since 1963 has been personal ministries secretary and Sabbath School teacher.
Her interests were ceramics, reading and her children.
In November 1984, they moved into Mobridge and were active with the Mobridge Senior Center, and Federation for the Blind. Ruth and Art have six children.
She is survived by her husband Art, children Doug (Deb) Haefner of Bismarck, ND, Bonnie Weron of Collegedale, TN, Yvonne Haefner of Murdo, SD, Mike (Christine) Haefner of Hutchinson, MN, Dave Haefner of Glenham, SD, and Susan (Dale) Bender, a sister Elsie (Ted) Nicholes of Rogue River, Oregon, a sister-in-law Esther Haefner Bishop of Auburn, WA, ten grand children and eighteen great-grandchildren.
She was preceded her in death by her parents, seven half-brothers and five half-sisters and their spouses.
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