Irene "Ruth" Ostendorf

May 28, 1930 - November 25, 2019

Ruth Ostendorf, 89 of Ravenna, formerly of Kearney passed away Monday, November 25, 2019 at Good Samaritan Home in Ravenna. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, November 29, 2019 at O’Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral Home in Kearney. The Pastor Dean Pofahl will officiate. Interment will follow at Kearney Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Condolences may be shared online at www.osrfh.com. Services are entrusted to O’Brien Straatmann Redinger Funeral and Cremations Services. Ruth was born May 28, 1930 in Omaha, NE to Rueben and Gertrude (Weliever) England. The family later moved to Kearney where Ruth attended school and was a member of the Kearney High School class of 1947. On October 24, 1953, Ruth was united in marriage to Donald Ostendorf at the First United Methodist Church in Kearney. She was employed by Kearney Public Schools as an aide and later as an administrative assistant. In 1981, Ruth attended LPN school, graduating in 1982. She then worked at Good Samaritan Hospital until 1990. Ruth was a longtime member of the Benevolent Patriotic Order of DOES, serving as president in 1976. Left to cherish her memory are her husband, Donald Ostendorf of Ravenna; children, Patricia Gray of Denver, CO, Dorothy (Gene) Synovec of Western, Danny (Connie) Ostendorf of Gibbon, Rebecca (Mark) Wright of Grand Island; 7 grandchildren; 9 great grandchildren; and 2 great great grandchildren. Ruth was preceded in death by her parents.