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RUTH MOYER KREIDER HILTNER

Cleveland, Ohio

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HILTNER RUTH MOYER KREIDER HILTNER, aged 94, died February 5, 2011. Ruth was born in Toledo, OH on April 23, 1916, to Mary Elizabeth Moyer and Rev. Henry Royer Kreider. Ruth married William Albert Hiltner on August 12, 1939. They lived for many years in Williams Bay, WI and later in Ann Arbor,...

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Ruth was an esteemed election inspector at the Angell School precinct for the City of Ann Arbor for many years until 2002. While she hadn't helped at the polls in many years, good thoughts of her still remain.

A gracious woman of many talents and rich experience

A gracious woman of many talents and rich experience, Ruth was a neighbor on Oswego St. and on Berkshire Road in Ann Arbor. Following the death of her husband, the distinguished astronomer Albert Hiltner, she worked at the University of Michigan's Art Museum on an extensive study of weavings, and one hopes that this study survives now that digital archiving of color images is easy to do. Ruth had friendships with many of the major scientists of the 20th century including those active in...