Visitation for Ruth Ashton, age 73 of Woodward, will be on Tuesday, January 18, 2022, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Carris Family Funeral Home & Cremation Care in Perry. Interment of her ashes will be in the Beaver View Cemetery at Crofton, NE at a later date. In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to ALS of Iowa, Perry Lutheran Homes and Suncrest Hospice of Des Moines and may be left at the Carris Family Funeral Home & Cremation Care. Online condolences may be left at www.carrisfuneralhome.com.

Survivors include her husband, Rich of Woodward.  Seven siblings and spouses’: Marilyn Birmingham of Bettendorf; Dora (Dan)Parnell of Universal City TX; Mary (John) Strayer of Kearney, NE; Jan Jensen of Pierce, NE; Judy (Roger) Cambier of Alton, IA; Larry (Tracey) Merchen of West Point, NE; Diane (Lance) Brozek of Omaha; brother-in-law Tom (Deb) Ashton of Beaman and sister-in-law Rosie Stanley of Wilton, IA. Eldest niece Dawn (Kelly) Kirts of Woodward as well as numerous other nieces, nephews, great nieces, and nephews.