Ruth Thompson, 79, Mountain Home (Conner)

On Saturday, February 15, 2025, another angel went to heaven to be with the Lord. Ruth Elizabeth Thompson passed peacefully away in the hands of her husband. “Ruthie” was born on August 15, 1945, in Oswego, New York to Richard and Ruth Batchelor. Ruth died from chronic kidney disease the day after “Ruthie” was born. Ruthie was then adopted by her grandparents, Richard and Leona Batchelor who never had a daughter, and they spoiled her rotten! The best of the best for their daughter.

She graduated from Oswego High School with honors in 1963 and attended Oswego College for two years. She graduated from Syracuse University in May of 1976. Upon graduation, Ruthie went to work for Metropolitan Life Insurance. In 1978, she was the first woman honored with the Million Dollar Salesman Award and received her recognition at Pinehurst Country Club.

Ruthie married Michael Shatrau in 1966 and had one daughter, Tracy, in 1967. The marriage ended in divorce and in 1981 she met Robert Thompson. They moved to Beaumont, Texas and then to Houston. Bob and Ruthie married on October 25, 1982, in Houston. Ruthie owned a craft and antique shop called the Chicken Ranch where she made sewn crafts.

Bob and Ruthie moved to Mountain Home on March 3, 1987, and built a restaurant called Southern Fried Chicken and Catfish across from the original McDonald’s. Ruthie later went to work for and retired from Baxter Regional Medical Center after fifteen years of service as a floor secretary at the Women’s Center. “The job of her life!”

Ruthie is survived locally by her husband, Bobby Thompson of Mountain Home; her daughter and son-in-law, Tracy and Jason Emerson of Baldwinsville, New York; two grandsons, Alissandro Berner of Fulton, New York and Kayden Berner of Baldwinsville, New York; one great-grandson, Onyx Berner of Baldwinsville, New York; two sisters, Bonnie Kingsley of Ohio and Lana of Saint Louis; her sister-in-law and her husband, Robin and Mark Brand of Indian Lake, New York; her brother-in-law, Randy Thompson and his wife, Cheri of Largo, Florida and her niece, Brooke Brand of Geneva, New York. Ruthie will always be remembered by her “kitty family.”

She was preceded in death by her dad and mom and a stepbrother, Ricky.

Ruthie will be buried in Oswego, New York with her mom and dad and in Calcium, New York with Bobby and his parents. Some of her ashes will be spread on the banks of Lake Ontario, that she loved so much.

Arrangements are by Conner Family Funeral Home & Cremation Center. A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday, March 1, 2025, at 2 p.m. at Conner Family Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until service time. All of her friends are encouraged to attend. An online guestbook and obituary are available at www.connerfamilyfuneralhome.com.

   

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