Ruth Lorene Stanley Sherman

September 23, 1918 – August 16, 2009

Moses Lake resident, Ruth Lorene Stanley Sherman, 90, died August 16, 2009, at Lake Ridge Care Center in Moses Lake, Washington.

A private service will be held at Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, Washington. A memorial service will be 2:30 p.m., Sunday, August 23, 2009, at the Church of Christ, 808 E. Sharon Avenue, Moses Lake, Washington. James Sherman, Jr. will officiate. Steve and Rochelle send their Thank You for remembrances of their Mother and regret for their absence at the Moses Lake memorial service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Health Talents, Inc., for the support of Guatemalan children through Mountain View-Colonial DeWitt, 1551 Dalles Military Road, Walla Walla, WA 99362.

The youngest of nine children, Mrs. Sherman was born September 23, 1918, in Lineville, Iowa, to Homer Rubin and Grace June Brantwait Stanley. She graduated from high school in Cheyenne, Wyoming. On May 4, 1940, she and James A. Sherman, Sr., married in Kimball, Nebraska.

She loved her role as a mother and grandmother. She and her husband were lifelong members of the Church of Christ, where he also served as a minister and elder. Being at her husband’s side in his ministry, serving their church families was of utmost importance to her. They ministered in many areas including Walla Walla, Washington, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Burns, Oregon, Juneau, Alaska, Paionia, Walden and Fort Collins, Colorado, Bisbee, Arizona, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Wenatchee and Colville, Washington, retiring in Moses Lake where Jim served the church as an elder preaching part time in Othello, Washington.

She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Rochelle and Leo Gaddis of Moses Lake; two sons and daughters-in-law: James A. Jr. and Doris Sherman of Shady Valley, Tennessee and Steve S. and Magda Sherman of Nashville, Tennessee; ten grandchildren and their spouses, seventeen great-grandchildren, seven great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jim Sherman Sr., eight siblings and their spouses and one great-granddaughter.