Ruth H. Tomlinson

Ruth Tomlinson BARTONVILLE, Ill. #45;- Ruth H. Tomlinson, 88, of Bartonville died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2001, at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Ill. Services are 10 a.m. Friday at Davison Fulton Bartonville Chapel. The Rev. Ted Deal will officiate. Burial will be at Bloomington-Muscatine Friends Cemetery in Muscatine. Visitation is one hour prior to services Friday at the chapel. Memorials may be made to the Maxwell Road Church of God. Davis Fulton Bartonville Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. Mrs. Tomlinson was born on May 24, 1913, in Muscatine, the daughter of Frank and Inza B. Fraze Etter. She married Carl W. Dean in Muscatine. He preceded her in death. She later married Leland V. Tomlinson on April 24, 1962, in Peoria. He preceded her in death June 20, 1995. She worked for Peoria State Hospital for 20 years, retiring as a supervisor. She was a founding member of the Mothers Club at the Baptist Church of Kewanee, Ill.; member of the Kewanee Artist Association; and member of Maxwell Road Church of God. She volunteered as a soloist for many Peoria area churches and nursing homes. Survivors include two daughters, Maryella Goldsmith of Galva...[more]

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ll. and Lysandra Hebert and her husband, Omer, of Lenox, Mo.; three sons, Carl Dean Jr. and his wife, Judy, of Fort Madison, Fla., Alan Dean and his wife, Patti, of Wyoming, Ill. and Owen Dean and his wife, Sheila, of Morrison, Colo.; a stepson, Theodore Tomlinson of Peoria; 29 grandchildren; 47 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; a grandson; three great-grandsons; a great-granddaughter; two brothers; and two sisters.