Obituary of Ruth M. Douglas

Ruth Mary Douglas passed away on Monday February 11 at St. Clare's Hospital, Dover Campus. She was 81. Born in Livingston on September 4,1931 to the late Thomas and Helen Elsum, Ruth resided in Caldwell where she graduated from Caldwell High School prior to moving to Lake Hiawatha, Mt. Arlington and Bonita Springs, FL before residing in Hopatcong for the last nine years ago. Ruth was a homemaker whose greatest joy was spending time with her family. Devoted wife of the late Stephen, Jr., beloved mother of Stephen, III and wife, Lucy, John and wife, Corinna, Jed and wife, Nancy, David and wife, Veronica and Scott and wife, Moira, dear sister of Dorothy Reiman, the late Virginia Cherkin and the late Jane Elsum, adoring grandmother of 14 and great grandmother of 11.