SERVICES
Trinity Lutheran Church
Appleton City, Missouri
Saturday November 18, 2006
10:00 AM

MINISTER
Pastor Daniel Mackey

VISITATION
Trinity Lutheran Church
Appleton City, Missouri
Saturday Nov. 18, 2006
9:00 – 10:00 AM

INTERMENT
Clinton Memory Gardens Cemetery
Clinton, Missouri

MEMORIALS
Appleton City Library
American Heart Association

Ruth Ann Robbins, the daughter of Allen Crawford and Edith Rose (Rathbun) Staples, was born November 21, 1940 in Kansas City, Missouri. She passed away November 15, 2006 at St. Joseph Health Center in Kansas City, Missouri at the age of 65 years.
Ruth lived in the Kansas City area until 1976 when she moved to Green Ridge, Missouri. She moved to Lowry City in 1987 and then to Appleton City in 1999 where she spent the remainder of her life.
Ruth was a very friendly and outgoing person and enjoyed visiting with her friends. She liked to read and travel and was the director of the Appleton City Library. She was a member of the Retired Teachers Association and Trinity Lutheran Church. She taught secondary special education for 23 years and retired from Appleton City High School.
She was united in marriage to David Robbins on July 21, 1957 in Kansas City, Missouri. To this union four sons were born.
She was preceded in death by her husband David and son Dwayne.
She is survived by her parents, Allen C. Staples and Edith R. Lemen; three sons: David A. Robbins of Rogersville, Missouri, Donald G. Robbins of the Philipines and Darrell L. Robbins of Appleton City; a half brother John Martin Lemen of Odessa, Missouri; four grandchildren: Elizabeth, Nat, Jay and Jeanie; and one great-grandson, Jacob.