Ruth D. McCord

1920 - 2001

Ruth D. McCord

1920 - 2001

BORN

1920

DIED

2001

Ruth McCord Obituary

Published by Douglass Edgerley & Bessom Funeral Home on Oct. 23, 2001.
Ruth D. (Perschau) McCord, 81, a resident for 11 years of Stoneham, Massachusetts, wife of the late Donald T. McCord, died at Winchester Hospital on Sunday, October 21, 2001. Visitation is scheduled for Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 6-8 p.m., at Douglass Edgerley & Bessom Funeral Home, 25 Sanborn Street, Reading, Massachusetts. Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday, October 24, 11 a.m., at First Congretional Church, 25 Woburn Street, Reading. Burial will be at Wood End Cemetery, Reading. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations are appreciated to Salvation Army, Massachusetts Headquarters, 147 Berkeley Street, Boston, MA 02116. Arrangements entrusted to Douglass Edgerley & Bessom Funeral Home, Reading, Massachusetts.

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John B. Douglass & John B. Douglass II

October 23, 2001

This book of memories is to serve as a record of the services you entrusted to us. We hope it will help to preserve treasured memories and that we, in some small measure, have helped to ease your burden and bring you comfort.

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