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Ruth L. Heist

May 7, 1927 — May 24, 2006

Ruth L. Heist

Ruth L. Heist, 79, died May 24 at 8:20 p.m. in her Wyomissing residence.

Her husband, Theodore I. Heist, died July 21, 2000.

Born in Catasauqua, Lehigh County, she was a daughter of the late Frederick and Elizabeth (Miles) Leickel.

Heist had been employed as a registered nurse by the Reading School District from 1967 until 1983.

She was a member of Bausman Memorial United Church of Christ, Wyomissing.

Heist was a 1944 graduate of Catasauqua High School, a 1949 graduate of the Reading Hospital School of Nursing, and received her bachelor's degree in nursing from Albright College in 1950.

She served as a housemother for the Reading Hospital School of Nursing from 1983 to 2005.

Heist is survived by two daughters, Jeanne M. Heist, Johnstown, Cambria County, and Cynthia L. (Heist) Keeney, Wyomissing.

There is also one granddaughter.

Memorial services will be Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Edward J. Kuhn Funeral Home Inc., West Reading.Contributions may be made to the Wyomissing Public Library, 9 Reading Blvd. Wyomissing, PA 19610.

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