Rice, Ruth Eleanor

1916 - 1995  (79 years)

• Name	Rice, Ruth Eleanor  [1]
  Birth	11 Mar 1916	Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, USA   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	20 Mar 1995	Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, USA   [1, 3]
  Obituary	21 Mar 1995
  Stevens Point Daily Journal
  Ruth E. Bablitch, 79, 1217 Ridge Road, died Monday, March 20, 1995, at Uni versity Hospital, Madison. Funeral services will be at 10;30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Stanislaus Cathol ic Church. The Rev. Donald Przybylski and the Rev. Michael Bablitch, a br other-in-law, will co-celebrate. Private family burial will be at St. Ste phen Cemetery. Friends may call at Boston Funeral Home from 5 to 7:30 p. m. today. Visitation will conclude with a prayer service. Memorials are established for Hospice of Portage County and St. Vince nt de Paul in lieu of flowers. Mrs. Bablitch was born March 11, 1916, in Stevens Point to the late Dr. Da niel and Elizabeth (Heffron) Rice. Her father was one of the early hor se and buggy doctors in central Wisconsin and later a founder of St. Micha el's Hospital. She graduated from Emerson High School in 1934. She did h er medical technical training at Madison General Hospital and was graduat ed from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1938 with a bachelor of sci ence degree. Sfhe was employed as a medical technician at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, and at Riv er Pines Sanitorium in Whiting until her marriage. She was married Oct. 5, 1940, at St. Stephen Parish to Robert A. Bablitc h. He survives. Her interests included family, golfing and gardening. Survivors include three sons, Jim (Judy), Stevens Point, Bob (Linda), La C rosse, and Mike (Jean), Stevens Point; three daughters, Liza (Joe) Stewar t, Lakewood, Ohio, Mary Beth (Bob) Katz, Lexington, Mass., Heidi (John) An derson, Madison; a sister, Betty (Rice) Gapen, Riverside, Ill.; and 10 gra ndchildren. Stevens Point Daily Journal, Stevens Point, WI Tuesday, March 21, 1995
  Burial	22 Mar 1995	St. Stephen's Cemetery, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, USA   [1, 4]
  Person ID	I42594	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2015

  
  

  Father	Rice, Daniel Stephen M.D.,   b. 4 Jun 1863, Wrightstown, Brown, Wisconsin, USA d. 28 May 1937, Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, USA (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Heffron, Elizabeth,   b. 12 Sep 1874, Stockton, Portage, Wisconsin, USA d. 24 Jan 1957, Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, USA (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F11989	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bablitch, Robert Adolph,   b. 19 May 1914, Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, USA d. 29 Apr 1995, Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	5 Oct 1940	Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, USA   [1, 5]
  Children	1. Bablitch, James Michael   2. Bablitch, Elizabeth Jane   3. Bablitch, Robert   4. Bablitch, Michael   5. Bablitch, Mary Beth   6. Bablitch, Heidi
  Family ID	F13684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 May 2010

  
  

• Sources

  [S141] Gedcom import from BarbMiroRiceFamilt.FTW. [S436] Portage County, Wisconsin Birth Certificates, volume 110, page 291. [S740] Ancestry.com, U.S. Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, (Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.). [S384] Stevens Point Daily Journal, Tuesday, March 21, 1995. [S158] Portage County, Wisconsin Marriage Licenses, volume 11, page 35.