Ruth Alice Windsor, the daughter of Clarence and Mabel Hossle Whitney, was born on July 18, 1918 on the family homestead 40 miles southeast of Buffalo, Wyoming, 17 miles from the small town of Kaycee, Wyoming. She passed away on Monday, June 11, 2007 at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa at the age of 88 years, 10 months and 24 days. In 1916, her mother and father homesteaded 320 acres of land in Wyoming, living in a tent until a house was built in 1917. Ruth was born on this homestead. They moved into the town of Kaycee that winter while her father worked in the oil fields. The family moved back to Emerson in 1928, when Clarence's father died and he took over his father's plumbing business. Ruth attended school in Emerson and graduated from Emerson High School in 1937. In 1941, the family moved to Omaha and all of them worked in the Bomber Plant. After the end of World War II, they returned to Emerson and lived there until the death of her father, Clarence, in December of 1947. In 1949, Ruth and her mother decided to move to California. Ruth worked for many years for J.C.Penney in Los Angeles. After the death of her husband, Stanley Windsor, Ruth and Mabel returned to Emerson to live, moving in 1987. Ruth was a member of the Emerson United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, the Santa Monica Order of the Eastern Star, the Daughters of the Nile, Emerson Woman's Club and Emerson Senior Citizens. Ruth is survived by her step-daughter, Rosalie Tison and her husband Dycus, of Harrisburg, IL; 2 granddaughters: Lori Denny and her husband, Jeff of Harrisburg, IL; and Leann Denny and her husband, Brett of Eldorado, IL; great-granddaughter, Tara Taylor and her husband, Nathan, of Herrin, IL; and other relatives and friends. May God bless her memory and give strength to those who mourn. Funeral Service will be held Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 10:30 AM At Sellergren-Lindell-DeMarce Funeral Home, Red Oak Burial in Emerson Cemetery, Emerson, Iowa Rev. Pam Flanigan, Officiating Memorials to Emerson United Methodist Church, Emerson Rescue or Red Oak Fire & Rescue. Sellergren-Lindell-DeMarce Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.