Royal Ruddock - obituary

Royal "Roy" is the son of Luke Ruddock and Margaret Clark. He married Edith/Edythe Fortune on May 25 1905 in East Jordan, Charlevoix, Michigan.

Roy and Edith had a daughter, Margaret Jeanette who was born in February 26,1907. Edith died of TB on May 25, 1909 while 7 months pregnant, leaving Roy to raise their baby girl. Roy's sister Mae Ruddock had just lost her husband and young son and moved into Roy's house to help raise Margaret.

Aug 1937 in Indiana, Roy married Hazel Fern Cummins b. 1892 d. 1984 in Michigan.

Roy and Ediths daughter Margaret Ruddock married Alton Beams in 1924. Doris Mae Beams was born September 20, 1926. Margaret and Alton and divorced in December 1926, Margaret then married John Bishop in 1929 in Elkart, IN. Margaret died of TB in 1938 in Michigan.

Roy was buried on Nov 9th. in the Ruddock family plot bought back in 1899 by his mother Margaret Clark Ruddock.

contributed by Bill Schrader, Grandson of Royal.