Ruth Chesnut Obituary

Funeral services for Ruth J. Chesnut, 76, of Ridge Farm were held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11 at Houghton-Leasure Funeral Home, 200 E. West St., Georgetown. The Rev. Richard Jordan officiated.

Burial was in Cemetery, Sidney. Mount Hope Visitation was from 2 to 4 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Mrs. Chesnut died at 11:20 p.m. Sunday (Nov. 8, 1992) at home.

She was born April 8, 1916, at Broadlands, a daughter of Ernest and Josephine DeWitt Leerkamp. She married Ray Chesnut on Feb. 12, 1936, at Sidney. He survives.

Also surviving are a son, Morris Chesnut of Ridge Farm; three daughters, Donna Hobden of San Jose, CA, Janet Hubbard of Ridge Farm and Sandra Schumacher of Plainfield; a brother, Clifford Leerkamp Longview; six sisters, Wilma Schwartz of Champaign, Margaret Sidney. Mildred Erb of McKinney of Pinehurst, N.C., Evelyn Foster of Newman, Norma Robb of Madisonville, KY, and Pat Grubb of Covington, IN; 11 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by an infant son.

Mrs. Chesnut was a member of the Ridge Farm Bible Church and the Vermilion Valley Quilters Club. Her hobbies were quilting, painting, sewing and gardening.

Southern Champaign County Today (Villa Grove, Illinois) Wednesday, November 18, 1992