On July 27, 2012 JANET L. RUTH beloved wife of the late J. William Ruth; devoted mother of Robert A. and Melissa Ruth, Janet and Bill Walczak, Nancy L. Ruth and the late James William Ruth, Jr. and his surviving wife Penny Gahan;sister of Frances Leap; loving grandmother of David and Heather Ruth, Andrew and Kylene Ruth, Matthew and Wendi Ruth; great-grandmother of James Harrison Ruth, William Matthew Ruth, Gabriel William Ruth and Margaret Pace Ruth; she is also survived by the children of her friend and companion of many years the late R. Kenneth Lyons; Sherry Lyons, Nancy and John Martin, Debe and Dick Frankenfield, Ken and Garry Lyons, Allison and Joe Pomroy and Kim and Jim McNeill and 11 grandchildren.

Friends may call at the family-owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc. 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26) on Sunday from 6 to 8 PM. Funeral Services will be held at St. James Episcopal Church, Monkton on Monday at 10:00 AM. Interment in the church cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Wye Parish-St.Luke's Chapel, 7208 Main Street, Queenstown, MD 21658 or St. James Church, 3100 Monkton Road, Monkton, MD 21111 or Dr. Neil Bressler's Macular Degeneration Research c/o Johns Hopkins Hospital 600 N. Wolfe Street, Wilmer 112, Baltimore, MD 21287.
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