Ruth Shannon

Ruth, Terry, and Truman, Jr. Bledsoe, about 1935
Ruth, Terry, and Truman, Jr. Bledsoe, about 1935
born: 31 Oct 1904, Clinton Co.,Iowa
died: 9 Apr 1987, Clinton,Clinton Co.,Iowa, at Alverno Home
bur.: St Louis,Missouri, at Calvary Cemetery
spouse: Truman C. BLEDSOE
marr: 2 May 1928, Chicago,Illinois
born: 29 Dec 1906, St. Louis,Missouri
died: 10 Jun 1945, Atlanta, Georgia at Lawton army hospital of wounds received in Belgium
bur.: St Louis,Missouri, at Calvary Cemetery
Children:
Truman Claudius ``Terry'' Bledsoe

Pedigree Chart

                      |--------Michael SHANNON (1800, Ireland - 1860, Ireland)
                      |
           |---------Patrick SHANNON (1830, Ireland - 1903, Iowa)
           |          |
           |          |--------Mary NEYLON (1808, Ireland - Ireland)
           |
  |------Thomas Lucien SHANNON (1865, Iowa - 1929, Iowa)
  |        |
  |        |          |--------Jeremiah LUCEY (1800, Ireland - 1897, Iowa)
  |        |          |
  |        |---------Julia LUCEY (1836, New York - 1910, Iowa)
  |                   |
  |                   |--------Bridget DOYLE (1815, Ireland - 1885, Iowa)
  |
Ruth SHANNON (1904, Iowa - 1987, Iowa)
  |
  |                   |--------John FARRELL (Ireland - )
  |                   |
  |        |---------George FARRELL (1829, Ireland - 1882, Iowa)
  |        |          |
  |        |          |--------
  |        |
  |------Annie Cornelia FARRELL (1874, Iowa - 1935, Iowa)
           |
           |          |--------Patrick LAWLOR (1808, Ireland - 1889, Iowa)
           |          |
           |---------Catherine LAWLER (1845, Ireland - 1913, Iowa)
                      |
                      |--------Elizabeth REED (1822, Ireland - 1862, Iowa)
Ruth started life in Clinton County, and graduated from high school in Lawler, Iowa. She became a teacher for two years, some of that time in the Indian reservations in the Dakotas, and then moved to Chicago. She and Truman lived in Chicago and St. Louis before he entered the army. Her son Terry remembers that Ruth and Terry lived with Ruth's sister-in-law June (wife of Ruth's brother Patrick Adrian) in Chicago while Truman and Patrick Adrian were in the service. After Truman died, Ruth moved back to Clinton where two of her sisters still lived.

Ruth joined the staff of the Clinton Herald in 1945 as a regional newswriter. In 1954, she became the police and courthouse reporter and 10 years later was named news editor, a post she held until her retirement January 1, 1971. Ruth was a frequent news award winner and was active in the Iowa Press Women, National Federation of Press Women and the Iowa Association of City Editors. She was a member of St. Irenaeus Catholic church, was a past president of Amvets Auxiliary and the Clinton Wa-tan-ye Club.

Truman entered the army in August 1944 and was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge of WW II in January, 1945. He returned to the US About May 6 and was in the Lawton hospital from that time on. He died in June of that year of his wounds.

More information: OBITUARY | Truman's OBITUARY

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