Ruth Higgins

Ruth Higgins Passed away on September 24, 2006, at the age of 89 in La Mesa, CA, where she resided for the last three years. She was born Ruth Martha Hagen on June 15, 1917, in San Francisco, CA. She lived the majority of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area, with stays in Bremerton, WA, during World War II, Pensacola, FL, and San Diego, CA. She was very generous with her time and support to all those in need. She supported her children by volunteering to serve on their PTA, Cub Scout and Boy Scout committees. She dedicated herself to children's causes by working in preschools, volunteering with Head Start and by "adopting" children through the Companions Program. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Hayward and enjoyed participating in Presbyterian Women's Group. She was a long-time member of the Eden Garden Club in Castro Valley. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert E. (Bob) Higgins; her brother David Hagen, and her beloved sister Sally Wharton. She is survived by her brother Harold Hagen and his wife Virginia (Lee); her three sons and daughters-in-law, Timothy and Karen Higgins, Terrence and Dena (Hermosilla) Higgins, and John Higgins and Lenio Myrivili; her three granddaughters, Joanne Higgins Ensign, Donna Higgins Mayer and Ariadne Myrivili-Higgins, and her six great-grandchildren, Elizabeth, Victoria and Thomas Ensign, and Grant, Pierce and Clark Mayer. She contributed much good to the world and to those people whose lives she touched. Ruth will be greatly missed by all who knew her and loved her. There will be a Memorial Service for Ruth Higgins on October 25, 2006 at 1pm at the First Presbyterian Church of Hayward, 2490 Grove Way, Castro Valley, CA. Those who wish to do so may make a gift in her memory to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163.