Ruth Ellen Spotts

COAL TOWNSHIP — Ruth Ellen Spotts, 79, of 127 N. Marshall St., Shamokin, died Monday morning, March 26, 2012, at Mountain View: A Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She had been ill since November.

Born in Shamokin, Oct. 19, 1932, she was a daughter of the late Peter James and Martha Olive (Kaseman) Lytle.

A 1950 graduate of Shamokin High School, she worked as a short order cook for Shamokin Hospital and also worked part time at Knoebels Amusement Resort. She had also worked at the Shamokin Grant Store.

On May 11, 1954, in St. John's Reformed Church, Shamokin, she was married to William L. Spotts, who passed away Jan. 18, 1993.

She was a member of St. John's United Church of Christ, Cecilian Club and Citizens Advisory Board for Public Welfare. She was active in her church's Sunday school classes and Women's Guild, and also had been church organist, choir director and a member of the English Hand Bell Choir. She was guarantor of Bach Choir, Bethlehem.

Surviving are her children, Rebecca Tuszynski and her husband, William, of Quakertown, Kathleen Garbs, of Big Sandy, Texas, David L. Spotts, of Kulpmont, Barry L. Spotts, of Shamokin, and Marcia Spotts, of Sarasota, Fla.; six grandchildren, a great-grandchild, and a sister, June Waltzer, of Ambler.

In addition to her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Daniel L. Spotts, on April 29, 2008, and a grandson, Tony Hill, on May 12, 2009.

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SPOTTS — Ruth Ellen Spotts, 79, of 127 N. Marshall St., Shamokin. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John's United Church of Christ, 117 N. Eighth St., Shamokin, with the Rev. John Silliman officiating. There are no hours of calling. The family requests donations be made to the church. Farrow Funeral Directors, Shamokin, has charge of arrangements.