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From The Morning Press, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania dated May 21, 1969:

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Mrs. Ralph Smith, Of Berwick, Dies
  Mrs. Ralph L. Smith, the former Ruth Kishbaugh, sixty-eight, 528 West
Front street, Berwick, died early yesterday afternoon in Berwick Hospital
where she had been admitted Sunday evening.  She had been in failing health
for several years.
  She was born in Berwick, March 21, 1901, daughter of the late Daniel M. and
Clara Raseley [sic] Kishbaugh.  In her earlier life she was employed in the
Philadelphia Bargain Store, operated by Morris Shaffer.  Later she was with
the Racusin Store and during World War II was employed at the Multiplex.
Her death severs a marital span of forty-two years.  She was a member of
the First Baptist Church and Good Samaritan Sunday School Class.
  Surviving are her husband, a daughter, Mrs. Matthew (Frances) Beattie,
Berwick; a son Charles H. Smith, Nescopeck; seven grandchildren, a brother,
Robert R. Kishbaugh, Berwick; nieces and nephews. 
  Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two at the James
L. Hinckley Funeral Home, Berwick, with Rev. William H. Marshall, pastor of
First Baptist Church officiating.  Burial will be in Pine Grove cemetery,
Market street.

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