RUTH RAMSEYER

LAWRENCE, Kan.- Services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday at Warren-McElwain Mortuary in Lawrence for Ruth Arlene (Metsinger) Ramseyer, 94, Lawrence, who died Thursday, June 1, 2017, at her residence at Hillside Village in De Soto. Visitation will be held prior to the service, beginning at 3 p.m. Burial will take place at 11:30 a.m. Monday, at Lake Cemetery in Lamar, Mo.

Online condolences may be posted to www.warrenmcelwain.com.

Memorial contributions may be made in her name to the Lawrence First Baptist Church building fund or in honor of her son, William Eugene, to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Survivors include a daughter, Mary Ann Marquette; a son, Roger Ramseyer and daughter-in-law, Carroll Ramseyer; grandchildren John Marquette and wife Kim, Andrew Ramseyer and Ginny Ramseyer Winter and husband Jeremy; great-grandchildren, Michael and wife Cassie, Khaki and husband Travis, Allie and husband Jamey, Dawson and wife Tara, Zach, Taylor, Josh, Emma, Jonathan and Kason and great-great-grandchildren, Matthew, Lennon, Kenneth and Jackson.

She was preceded in death by her siblings, Armilda Margurite, Jack, Charlie and Ben; a son, William Eugene at the age of six; a grandson, William Jeffery Marquette and a son-in-law, Raymond Marquette.

Mrs Ramseyer was born Dec. 2, 1922, to Oscar Elvin and Ollie Mae (Hagins) Metsinger. She married Fred Andrew Ramseyer on March 1, 1939 and was married to him 74 years on the day of his death in 2013.

She and her husband moved from the Lamar, Missouri area to Kansas prior to World War II. Much of her working life was as a school cook, where her cinnamon rolls at Grant Elementary were widely known and appreciated.