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Ruth Gibbs Obituary

Ruth Almeda "Meda" (Craig-Schuller) Gibbs Was born Nov. 26, 1922 in Haines, Baker County, OR to Charles Laymond Craig and Doris Ruth (Thompson) Craig. She died at the age of 88 on May 3, 2011 in Puyallup, WA. The viewing is at 9:30am and the funeral services will be held 10:30am at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 13420 94th Ave., Puyallup on May 10th, 2011. Interment will follow at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent at 1:15pm. She is survived by daughters Bobbie Wiseman, Dianne Bjornstad, and Candy Schuller, son Andrew Schuller, 9 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, and 5 great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Leonard Gibbs, in 1991, and by a son, William John Schuller, in 2002. Arrangements by Klontz Funeral Home, Auburn, WA.

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Published by News Tribune (Tacoma) on May 8, 2011.

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Errol Wall

May 8, 2011

My condolences on the loss of Meda. We are distant cousins and although we never met, we communicated by email for a period exchanging family information. I know she will be missed.

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