Ruth Ferro
Ruth Ferro, 81, died March 5, 2004, at Spring Hill, Fla.
Born Nov. 27, 1922, near Burns, she was the oldest child of Sam and Ethel (Gray) Spinden.
She graduated from Burns High School and later was employed as a secretary in the Agriculture Adjustment Administration offices in El Dorado and Newton.
She married Marvin McReynolds of Newton in 1944. They were transferred by Boeing to the Seattle area in the early 1950s.
She served 30 years as a secretary in the Washington public school system. In the 1980s she began working as a tour guide and later as a wedding consultant. She also was employed as a soloist at several of Seattle's largest churches. In the 1960s she was accepted into the Seattle Opera and sang with them for many years.
In 1991 she married William Ferro and they moved to Spring Hill, Fla. She was a member of Mariner United Methodist Church there.
She was preceded in death by her first husband in 1974; her husband, William in 2003; and two brothers, Chalmers and Fred Spinden.
Survivors include two daughters, Carol McReynolds of Minneapolis, Minn., and Jan O'Neil of Woodinville, Wash.; four stepchildren, William Ferro Jr. of Everett, Wash., John Ferro of Damascus, Ore., Tamara Garnett of Hadlock, Wash., and Debbie Grand of Lynwood, Wash.; two brothers, John and William Spinden, both of Cottonwood Falls; two sisters, Mary Beth Argo Collett of Marion and June Countryman of Wichita; and 10 grandchildren.
A memorial service was held March 11 in Spring Hill, with burial in the Bushnell National Cemetery at Bushnell, Fla.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Family Organization.
