Ruby Moffitt
Ruby Moffitt, 85, formerly of Durham, died June 21, 2003, at Hillsboro Community Medical Center.
The daughter of the late Leo and Martha (Reiswig) Wiederstein, she was born Aug. 2, 1917, at Lehigh.
She married Harvey E. Yauk on May 8, 1937. He died in 1987.
She served as assistant clerk at the Durham Post Office.
On May 31, 1988, she was married to Fred Moffitt at Durham.
She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church, Tampa, where services were held Tuesday morning. Pastor Clark Davis was the officiating clergyman. Burial was in Durham Park Cemetery.
Survivors include her husband, Fred Moffitt, McPherson; daughters, Muriel Otto of Las Vegas, Nev., and Meredith Ryan of Hillsboro; brothers Allen Wiederstein of Hitchcock, Okla., Alfred Wiederstein of Shattuck, Okla., and Hugo Weiderstein of Newton; sister Alice Mullins of LaHarpe; four grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Her late brother Edgar Weiderstein died in 2000.
Memorial funds have been established at the church in Tampa and Salem Nursing Home, Hillsboro.
