Gertha Ruth McKenna

Ruth McKenna 98, passed away peacefully on May 29, 2025 at Lake Ridge Acres, Mt
Healthy Ohio. She was born Jan 3, 1927 in Aliquippa, Pa. to Jesse and Gertha (Lovell)
Wall. She was preceded in death by her parent, her husband John ( Jack) Healey, husband
Charles McKenna, siblings; Ollie (Wall) Collins, William (Gar) Wall, Vera Lee (Wall)
Lasky, Clara (Wall) Thompson, Sylvia Jean (Wall) Murphy, Shirley (Wall) Miller and
Jerry Wall. She was also preceded in death by two sons, William and John Healey and
three grandsons, Richie Healey, Jeffrey Healey and Patrick Healey.
She was a longtime resident of Bon Meade, Pa and Aliquippa Pa before recently
moving to Lindenwald to live with family. She is survived by eight grandchildren;
Lea Anne Healey, Ashley Carr, Matthew Healey, Amy Trombetto, Ashley Healey,
William Healey Jr and Ethan Healey, 10 great grandchildren and 3 great-great
grandchildren.
She was also preceded in death by 14 nieces and nephews; Ervin Bryant, Donald
Wall, Jesse (Ralph)Wall, Gertha Parrish,Juanita Bryrant, Grover Collins Jr., Joyce
Collins, Richard Collins. Jesse Wall, Janet Luketic, Sandy Domitrovitch, William
Thompson Jr., Eileen Miller and Judy Wall. She is survived by nieces and nephews:
Burleigh Wall, William Wall Jr., Larry Wall, Karen Griffith, Donna Probst, Carol Myers,
Cindy Yager, Cheryl Mantle, Linda Pettit, Susan Thompson, Janice Evans, Lori
Henderson, Kelly Murphy, Tracie Miller, Forest James Miller, Tammy Wall and Jerry
Wall.
She was the family matriarch and historian, knowing family from seven
generations, always being able to identify family members in pictures. She was the belle
of the ball at every family reunion regaling us of stories from her youth and ours. She was
a beloved, beautiful, stylish and vivacious woman all her life, never looking her age. She
had many different careers in her life from restaurant owner to her last as a nanny. She
was a woman of her times, one of the last members of the " Greatest Generation" and the
last one left from her family generation As a daughter, mother, grandmother, aunt and
friend, she was always there for us, with a hug and a kiss, never forgetting the names of
our children. She was full of friendly advice and concern, reminding us to eat asparagus
daily for a long healthy life, asparagus, will cure anything!
Our family would like to give a special thanks to her friends in her later life, her
late brother-in-law, William Thompson, niece and nephew Burleigh and Debbie Wall,
who cared for her daily, nieces Michelle O'Donnell and Jessica McCallister, her wide
circle of friends at Lake Ridge Acres, especially Mike and Bonita, the Activities Staff and
all her nurses and aides, who allowed her to feed the squirrels, geese and birds daily. She
really appreciated all of you.