Ruth Adelle Rogers, daughter of Albertus C. and Alice Ennis Rogers, was born in Farina, Ill., July 16, 1886, and died at a nursing home in Ft. Pierce, Fla., June 12, 1963.
As a child, she was baptized and joined the Farina, Ill., Seventh Day Baptist Church. She transferred by letter to the Alfred, N. Y., church March 5, 1904, soon after coming with her family to the village.
She was graduated from Alfred University in 1909, taught in the elementary school ten years, and later served as secretary to President Boothe C. Davis of Alfred University and as assistant to the treasurer for 14 years.
On Dec. 27, 1938, she was united in marriage with Dr. Alfred E. Whitford. Upon Dr. Whitford's retirement from Alfred University in 1952, they went to Ft. Pierce to make their home. He died there in 1957.
Mrs. Whitford is survived by two step-children, Dr. Albert E. Whitford of Lick Observatory, Mount Hamilton, Calif., and Mrs. Dorothy Whitford Lerdahl of Madison, Wis.; by seven step-grandchildren; and by a nephew, Robert B. Rogers of Phoenix, Ariz. Memorial services were held at the Seventh Day Baptist Church in Milton, Wis., June 21, 1963, with the Rev. Elmo F. Randolph, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial was in Milton.
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