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Findlay Lake - Mrs. Ruth H. Griffen, 89 of 28 Malden St., Nassau, N. Y., died Wednesday morning (April 30, 1975) in the Albany Medical Center, Albany, where she had been a patient since Tuesday.
Born in Conneaut, Ohio on October 20, 1885, the daughter of Edgar and Mary Jane Beals Skinner, she had resided at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Wright of Nassau, for the past 10 years. Prior to 1965, she had made her home for over 30 years in Findlay Lake.
Mrs. Griffen had been employed for a number of years at the Elmwood Home for Boys in East Springfield, Pa., and also at the Odd Fellows Orphanage in Meadville, Pa. She was a member of the Latham Bible Baptist Church in Latham, and the Rose Chapter 22, Order of Eastern Star in Conneaut, Ohio.
Besides her daughter, she is survived by a stepson, Clarence Griffin of West Springfield, Pa.; a step daughter, Mrs Eunice Bowen of Burbank, Calif.; five grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. Lois Wright, of Conneaut, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her first husband Lee J. White; her second husband, Benjamin Griffen; a son, Noble White and three brothers, Charles, Homer and Edgar Skinner.
Burial will follow in East Conneaut cemetery.
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1885 - 1975 (89 years)
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