Submitted by: Dan Rich

Ruby M. Hartman

Aug. 6, 1912 - Aug. 6, 2001

South Bend Tribune 8/8/2001

Ruby M. Hartman, 89, residing on Ridgedale Road, South Bend, Ind., passed away at 2:35 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6, in the Ironwood Health and Rehabilitation Center. Mrs. Hartman was born Aug. 6, 1912, in Straight Creek, Ky., as the daughter of Harry and Anna Edith (Dowell) Harrison, and had lived in South Bend since 1929, coming from Jasonville, Ind.

On March 17, 1934, in South Bend, she married Norman A. Hartman, who preceded her in death on June 29, 1993. She was also preceded in death by a sister, Harrietta O'Rourke. She is survived by three daughters, Norma S. (Robert J.) Stewart of Dunnellon, Fla., Catherine Hartman and Neila K. Rozow, both of Mishawaka, Ind.; 10 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren; and by two sisters, Eulla Inks of Dayton, Ohio, and Pauline Spradling of Albuquerque, N.M.

Services for Mrs. Hartman will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 10, in the Palmer Funeral Home, 2528 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend. Rev. Marc Royer will officiate. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, Osceola, Ind. The family will receive friends from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday in the Palmer Funeral Home. Contributions in memory of Mrs. Hartman may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, 425 North Michigan Street, South Bend, IN 46601.