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Joseph F. RUH M.D.

Orchard Park, New York

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RUH - Joseph F., M.D. Of Orchard Park, NY, September 8, 2014, beloved husband of Patricia M. (Murphy); loving father of Joseph F. Jr. (Julia), Mary Patricia (Frank) Holden, John "Jack" F. (Maritza), Jennifer M., Daniel M. (Nancy), Peter C. (Susan), Richard J. (Hillary), Martha M. (David) Mangan, Kathleen R. (Gregory) Trapp and Anne R. (Karl) Clauss; also survived by 41 grandchildren; brother of Catherine (S.J.) Lilley; predeceased by brothers James (late Jean) and Robert (late Carol). Family will receive friends Thursday and Friday 2-4 and 7-9 PM at the F. E. BROWN SONS FUNERAL HOME, INC., 6575 E. Quaker St., Orchard Park, NY. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Saturday at 11:30 AM in Nativity of Our Lord Church, 26 Thorn Ave. at Buffalo St., Orchard Park. Friends invited. Dr. Ruh was a graduate of South Park High School, Canisius College and University of Buffalo School of Medicine. Memorial contributions may be made to Mercy Hospital Foundation in memory of Joseph F. Ruh, M.D., 565 Abbott Rd., Buffalo, NY 14220.


This obituary was originally published in the Buffalo News.

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Love you looking down. Miss the hugs, and the "time". YOU are missed here....Quietly observant... 9/8/2014-9/8/2025...A quantum Gap....

10 years have passed Dad since you died. But you are probably happier this year than last since your beloved wife and partner, Patricia Murphy died a few weeks ago on August 20 2024. She now lays besides you and all is well with the world. I remember the story when you bought the headstone from a patient of yours, I think. You were proud and glad it had been completed. Truly a blessing you could nearly see the cemetary and headstone through from your bathroom window where you shaved...

Heh Dad. Thanks for staying in our lives each day. Special thanks to helping Mom get over her illness this past July. I know it was you. Always healing. Love you.
Peter

Hi Dad
As a father, as a physician, as a life role model for me, you have no peers...
Miss you
Love you
Always

Hey Dad.... You were everywhere and not everywhere yesterday.
Merry Christmas.......

Hello, Dad. It's been a month since you've passed. We miss your presence, your voice, your humor and your wisdom. Yet we see them every day, in the lives and loves of others whom you touched. "Requiescat in Pace"

Jim has many great memories of Dr Ruh and the Ruh family! Take comfort in knowing that now you have a special guardian angel to watch over you. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you.

Prayers & thoughts from a cousin in Omaha,Nebraska ,Love,Mary Lou Ruh

Our Sympathy to the Ruh family. Dr. Ruh was our family doctor in the 1980's while living in the Colden area. Although we have left the area many years, and as those years have passed since then, only attests to how he influenced us by his professional and personable character as our family physician. God bless you all and give you His comfort at this time of loss and sadness.