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City Councilman's Wife Succumbs

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4
Month
December
Year
1970
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Mrs. Ruth W. Stephenson, the wife of Fourth Ward City Councilman James Ë. Stephenson, died last night at Huron View Lodge following an extended illness She was 45. A resident of 1933 Dunmore Rd , Mrs. Stephenson had been battling an incurable disease for the past three years. Her husband is in his second term on council and has been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for the mayor's post next April. Mrs. Stephenson was bom Sept. 5, 1925, at Ames, Iowa, the daughter of Lyman and Alice Benson Wood. She had been a resident of Ann Arbor the past 10 years, coming here [from Birmingham. i The Stephensons were 7 'V ried Sept. 8, 1946. A gradúate of I Iowa State College in 1947, Mrs. I Stephenson was a member of I the First United Presbyterian I Cburch and the local chapter of I the American Association of I University Women. She was I also active in the Girl Scouts. 1 Ir addition to her husband.i Mi'f. Stephenson is survived byl two daughters, Anne and Bar-1 bara; two sons, John and Dani-B el; her mother Mrs. Alice Woodl of Madison, Wis.; and twol brothers, Robert Wood of Mil-1 waukee, Wis., and John Woodl of Grand Forks, N. D. j Memorial services will bei held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the! First Presbyterian Church withl the Rev. Robert E. Sanders! officiating. Cremation has tak-l en place. j In lieu of flowers, memorial I contributions may be made lol the Multiple Sclerosis Research i Fund. Friends will be received I at the Muehlig Chapel from 7 to I 9 p.m. Saturday. Mayor Robert J. Harris I issued the following statement: "The City Council, the city administrator and I deeply grieve the passing and death of iRuth Stephenson, wife of IFourth Ward Republican CounIcilman James E. Stephenson. Although I did not personally know Mrs. Stephenson, I dof know that Jim' and nis familyfl were very close and that he andj Itheir children were extremely Ibenevolent and loving in her llong illness. "We mourn the loss and ask Ifor the love of God to help the Ifamily in the days of their soryow."