ALMA M. RUCH

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral mass for Alma M. Ruch of Perryville will be held at 11:30 a.m. today at St. Vincent's Catholic Church. The Rev. Kevin Fausz will officiate, with burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery.

Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home from 6:30-11:15 a.m. today.

Ruch, 61, died Monday, Nov. 21, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Dec. 5, 1932, at Apple Creek, daughter of Louis and Dorothy Buchheit Hennemann. She and Anton E. Ruch were married Jan. 27, 1968. He died Dec. 28, 1986.

Ruch was a cook at Perry County School District 32. She was a member of St. Vincent's Catholic Church, American Legion Auxiliary 133, VFW Auxiliary 4282, and AmVets Auxiliary 94.

Survivors include a daughter, Debra Manche of Perryville; a stepdaughter, Connie Dowdy of Cape Girardeau; two brothers, Henry and Irwin Hennemann of Perryville; four sisters, Cornelia Clements and Marie Laurentius of Perryville, Bernice Clements of Old Appleton, Zita Winkler of Apple Creek; two grandchildren, and two stepgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a stepson, sister and two brothers.