SAWYER Ruth Pearl

SAWYER Ruth Pearl

Female 1923 - 2012  (89 years)

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  • Name SAWYER Ruth Pearl 
    Birth 21 Sep 1923  Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Address:
    Corliss Hill Road 
    Gender Female 
    _UID 84E2B68E5FC8E64F9D6F3EE32CDEDA203769 
    Death 23 Nov 2012  Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Address:
    Wingate at Haverhill 
    • (OBIT: Bradford — Ruth (Sawyer) Robinson, 89, died Friday,November 23, 2012 in the Wingate at Haverhill after a period of declining health. She was the wife of the late Donald R. Robinson, Sr. who died in 1987.

      Ruth was born in Haverhill on September 21, 1923 and was the daughter of the late Allan Weare Sawyer and Mildred Edna (Howe) Sawyer.

      A lifelong resident of Haverhill, she was a graduate of
      Haverhill High School.

      Ruth was a dedicated homemaker and loved spending time tending to her three small flower gardens in her yard. She also enjoyed needlepoint, knitting and was an ardent reader who was known to read at least a novel a week and kept up to date on the local news by reading the paper. Ruth had never obtained her driver's license when she was younger and when she became widowed, she decided it was time to learn to drive and successfully took on the challenge of becoming a licensed driver at the age of sixty-six.

      She is survived by her three children, Sharon A. and her husband, Robert C. Corthell of Haverhill, David R. Robinson of Bradford and Dennis R.
      and his wife, Linda Robinson of Allenstown, NH; thirteen grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; a brother, Kenneth Sawyer of Rockledge, FL; a sister-in-law, Gloria Sawyer of Amesbury; a brother-in-law, Joseph and his wife, Norma Robinson of Atkinson, NH; three daughters-in-law, Andrea M. Robinson of Campton, NH, Doris Robinson of Glendale, AZ and Priscilla Robinson of Amesbury and many nieces and nephews. She was also predeceased by her son, Donald R. Robinson, Jr., three brothers, Aldrich, Marlon and Chester Sawyer and her sister, Esther Ricker.

      *ARRANGEMENTS: Her funeral Mass will be celebrated on Friday at St. Patrick's Church, 114 Center St., Groveland at 10 a.m. Visiting hours will be held on Thursday in the Linnehan-Grondin Funeral Home, 129 Kenoza Avenue, Haverhill from 4 - 8 p.m. Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend. In lieu of flowers, expressions of sympathy may be made in her memory to the American Cancer Society, 30 Speen St., Framingham, MA01701 or to the Alzheimer’s Assoc., 480 Pleasant St., Watertown, MA 02472. Interment will be held in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Haverhill. For more information and to send online condolences, please visit www.linnehan-grondin.com <http://www.linnehan-grondin.com>)
    Burial Aft 23 Nov 2012  Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Address:
    St. Joseph's Cemetery 
    Person ID I71289  Noyes Family Genealogy
    Last Modified 28 Nov 2012 

    Father SAWYER Allan Weare,   b. 23 Feb 1895, Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Oct 1981, Brevard, Florida, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Mother ALDRICH-HOWE Mildred Edna,   b. 28 Apr 1900, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1972 (Age 71 years) 
    Marriage 28 Apr 1917  Plaistow, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Residence 1930  Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    at 33 Corliss Hill Road 
    Family ID F27763  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family ROBINSON Donald R.   d. 1987 
    Marriage Y  [4
    Family ID F29597  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

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    Ruth (Sawyer) Robinson
    Ruth (Sawyer) Robinson

  • Sources 
    1. [S4167] Manuscript-Mary Ann (Haseltine) Sawyer, 4 Feb 2008 9:20 am.

    2. [S4256] Book-The Sawyer Family of Hill, NH, p.13.

    3. [S4752] Death-obit online, <http://www.eagletribune.com/obituaries/x1752036020/Ruth-Sawyer-Robinson-89.

    4. [S4171] Correspondence-Internet-Al Sawyer, 15 Aug 2009 8:21 pm.