Ruth M. Arbuckle

RUTH M. ARBUCKLE

Mount Pleasant

Ruth M. Arbuckle, 86, of Mount Pleasant, died

Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, at the Henry County Health Center in Mount Pleasant.

A graveside funeral

service for Mrs. Arbuckle

will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, in the Chapel at the Forest Home Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, where burial will take place. Friends may call from noon

to 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 13, at the Kimzey Funeral Home, 213 N. Main St., Mount Pleasant.

Those considering an expression of sympathy may direct memorials to a fund for the neutering/spaying of cats at Northeast Animal Hospital. Online condolences may be directed to www.kimzeyfuneralhome.com.

Mrs. Arbuckle, the former Ruth Marie Summers, was born Nov. 3, 1933, in Hopkins, Mo. She was the daughter of William Hayes and Elvena Agnes (Ancelet) Summers. She moved to Bonaparte, Iowa, as a young child and then to Burlington where she received her education. She moved to Mount Pleasant in 1967, where she met her future husband. On Jan. 16, 1971, in Rock Island, Ill., Ruth was united in marriage to Eugene "Pete" Arbuckle. Mr. Arbuckle died Monday, March 14, 1988, at the Henry County Health Center in Mount Pleasant.

Ruth was a longtime homemaker who also worked in the housekeeping department of (then) Iowa Wesleyan College, from which she retired in 1981. Ruth dearly loved and treasured all of her pet cats.

Those thankful for sharing in Ruth's life include a special friend, Catherine Woodson Gross, and all of Catherine's family whom Ruth "adopted" as her own.

Ruth's parents, husband and siblings all precede in death.