Ruth Isaacs

RUTH MARIE PEFFLEY ISAACS Ruth Isaacs, who retired in 1993 after teaching 30 years in the Lancaster Elementary School District in Lancaster, California, died Monday, July 30, following a long battle with cancer. Before her illness made it impossible, she served along with her husband Bob as Southern Cali fornia Representative for the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association. The daughter of Irvin Peffley and Grace Currin Peffley, Ruth was born September 1931 in Denver, Colorado, and moved to Amarillo, Texas as a small child. She met Bob Isaacs of Clayton, New Mexico at Amarillo High School, and they were married in 1951 at Polk Street Methodist Church in Amarillo. Ruth graduated from Texas Tech University in 1958 in spite of having three small children by that time. She taught school in Lubbock u ntil Bob completed his degree and moved the family to California in 1959. Ruth is survived by her devoted husband of 56 years, Robert Wolfe Isaacs; her son Robert Philip Isaacs of Hiram, Georgia; her daughters, Jeannette Darlington of West Hills, California, Charlotte Frye of Stockton, California, and Rebecca Bruno of Fremont, California; and her only sister, Dorothy Amos of Columbus, Kansas. She also leaves four grandsons, five granddaughters and a great-grandson. A memorial service will take pla ce at the Herzstein Memorial Museum in Clayton, New Mexico. In lieu of flowers, Ruth requested that donations be made to the Union County Historical Society, P.O. Box 75, Clayton, NM 88415.