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You have our deepest sympathy in the loss of your Mother and Grandmother. May God bless you with sufficient strength to deal with your grief. Hang on to the good memories. Your old neighbors.
Cyril and Laverta Mauch
I am so sorry to hear about Ruth. Although I have not talked to her in years I admired all the hard work she put into her flowers each year and enjoyed seeing them as I drove by. My sympathy and prayers to her family in your loss.
Colleen (Cooper) Olson
To the Family of Ruth; I was a Friend and at one time her neighbor. I had just talked to Ruth early Sunday morning. I feel like Ruth is still with us, and I believe a part of her will always be. As I remember her. Spending time with her on my visits to Yankton and around holidays. We spoke my times aweek on the phone almost every day. Ruth taught me many things about flowers and plants. She did have a Green thumb and her knowledge of them was amazing. I admired Ruth for her independence and how hard she worked. Plainview where I live is known as the Clown capital. I brought Ruth some from time to time she loved them. She had a liking for them. Ruth and I both liked to go get ice cream together, as well as our love for chocolate. Ruth will most truly be missed. My Heart and Prayers goes out to Her Family Sincerely Kandie Simmons
Our hearts are filled with love for each of you and our prayer is that you nwill experience the peace and comfort only Jesus our Savior can give.
Emery and Roberta Hoesing
sorry to hear about ruth, whenever i saw her she reminded me of an ellegant lady. she never knew me . i knew her. also her large garden of flowere. god's speed to all of her family.
barbara carda
I am not known by any of you, but wanted to express my sadness in Ruth's passing. I met Ruth while a teenager working at Gurney's. She was the epitomy of peacefulness, always calm and serene, no matter what awful job we were performing. She smiled and hummed through some of the worst tasks! I looked forward to seeing her garden on the corner every year, always so happy to see the first blooms in the spring, knowing there would be colorful flowers all season long to admire. The world has lost a special woman, talented, peaceful and kind. She will be missed in many ways around our community. May her peaceful nature continue within each of you.
Arlene Harper
I've known many of the Fischer family for years, but not "all" and when I lived in Yankton I would always see Ruth walking and a few times when we were both at HyVee, she would ride home with me.
She was so kind and thoughtful in her feelings about people. It's sometimes comforting that it happened fast and so hopefully no suffering. I know that she and Joann would have a meal at HyVee when I worked there and that was always a pleasure to see them both.
I know she will be missed by her family and in the community.
With sincere regrets for your loss.
Evelyn Klein
OH SO SORRY TO HEAR THE NEWS OF YOUR SISTER,DON. SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED THIS PAST YR. AND I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE FEEL YOUR PAIN AND YOUR LOSS EVEN THO WE ARE NOT EXPERIENCING THIS AT THE TIME. SORRY MARYLS TOO ABOUT YOUR MOM. OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS IS FOR JEHOVAH TO GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH AND COMFORT SO MUCH NEEDED. MY LOVE TO ALL
DORIS
Our thoughts and prayers go out to all the family members of Ruth. All of us at Lisa's Liquor will miss Ruth and watching her tend her beautiful flower garden.
Phyllis Schwandt
Our deepest sympathy to the whole Fischer family. May the Lord give you all strength during this time.
Bob & Joyce Gentrup
Our sympathy and prayers to Ruth's family. Ruth babysat for us in the late 70s. Her quiet, peaceful attitude and love of the outdoors was good for our children. In recent years, we too, enjoyed her efforts in her flower garden. She was a blessing to many people in many ways. Grateful to have known her,
Helen and Layton Ferwerda
A very long friend and I cried alot. I've known Ruth for many many years,. I'm going to name my next hybrid flower after her too keep her memery alive....
Randy Gleich
Ruth was a dear friend to me. I will never forget her. She gave me many flower seeds over the years and just this last christmas(2011)included in the wine bottles she was saving for a friend of mine that i picked up was a commemorative coca cola 4 pack in the old fashioned bottle style she had bought for me as a gift. I gave Ruth jam whenever i had some that i made and mushrooms in the spring i had found. I remember Ruth when i was younger riding her bike to her sister, JoAnn's house in Mission Hill. Ruth will nevr be forgotten by me and will always be in my heart. If you were friends with Ruth.....you had a friend for life. When I found out she passed away Saturday evening........after the news....i could do nothing but sit and reflect on the things that involved Ruth in my life. Yes, and i shed many tears. How could one not after a friendship such as hers. That lady was pure gold......and no less! God called home the hardest worker he saw. RIP Ruth.
I will always love you and miss you so much already.
Karen Bjornebo Larsen
i didnt know her personally but i knew who she was, hard to believe someone is here one moment and gone the next, god found a good person to take home with him, now she is in heaven watching down on all of us down here, wasnt that long ago when i had seen her i went to pay the water bill on the 10th of this month and she was walking by and also paying her water bill, she was walking her dog and me and my daughter elizabeth commented on how cute her dog was that she was out walking, he had on a coat with a hood, i always thought her yard in the summer time was very nice, alot of flowers she definately had a green thumb and now she will be planting her flowers in heaven with the lord!!!! people in this world should always be living like today might be there last day here on earth, just never know what the lord holds for us, when are time is up here on earth we should all leave a lasting empressing like ruth did, god bless her and the family is in my thoughts and prayers.
kathleen j robinson
Our lives were greatly enriched by Ruth. We were each recipients of her goodness and prayers. She was steadfast in her honorable life. Her unbending integrity caused her difficulty. Father Jimmy, her nephew, said it well at the memorial service, "she would give away her last nickel."
My first memory of Ruth is from Sacred Heart Hospital, where she worked in pediatrics with tender thoroughness.
Ruth was very close to her wonderful mother, Beatrice. When her mother died unexpectedly, the heartbreak was similar to Ruth's passing, severe. On a headstone in the Key West cemetery is this inscription honoring a mother: "Once she lived for us, now she lives through us." Ruth's yard, a beautiful botanical garden, was patterned after her mother's. The only things missing were the free roaming chickens, the milk cow out back, and the roto-tiller tied to a sturdy tree (that's another story!). Her mother's legacy lives uniquely on through each of Ruth's brothers' and sisters' families, and all those peonies and iris beds to come. Her mother and Ruth gave away their lives in the service of others.
A couple of Ruth in Duluth stories: We were out for a walk in unfamiliar neighborhoods...exploring a bit. Down a hill, and several blocks away, we saw in horror a fella down on all-fours getting kicked repeatedly by another guy as two other guys encouraged the beating. Ruth instantly took off running toward them. I followed. We got to the scene in seconds. The beating stopped without our saying a word. The three guys helped the poor fella up and off they stumbled. She may well have saved his life! Ruth had the courage of a lioness.
Another time, we were driving the old, off-blue Malibu from Duluth to visit my aunt and uncle near Ashby, Mn. It was an early Spring, sunny afternoon, but there was plenty of snow remaining. I came over a little rise in the two lane highway and hit a patch of ice that took us directly into the opposite lane of traffic, and yes, there was a car coming, seconds away from a head-on collision. I was frozen in terror. Ruth screamed, "God help us!" And our car, as if released from a slingshot, streaked back across the highway and off, into a roadside snow drift. Miraculously, no one was hurt. The fella we almost hit, turned around, and came to our aid. He took us into the one garage town he'd just passed through. The owner of the garage towed the car, put it inside the garage and let the snow melt from the front end. After checking the car out, he pronounced us fit to proceed. Ruth's faith in a loving and active God was her lifeline. Her yard was her sanctuary. An old friend of hers once commented, "Some of us are meant to live outdoors..." Ruth twinkled with understanding.
Charlie
Gerald and familly, I am sorry for the death of your sister! She is now in a new and wonderful home, and her spirit is with you and your family always.
John Levorson
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Ruth Elaine Fischer, age 61, of Yankton, South Dakota died unexpectedly on Saturday, January 14, 2012 in Yankton.
