MUSCATINE, Iowa -- Ruth W. Shay, 74, of Muscatine, died Sunday, April 23, 2000, at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics.

Services will be at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Homes. The Rev. Telford Dindinger will officiate. Pallbearers will be Mark Subbert, Norvel Garrison, Jeff Becker, Brandon Welsch, Travis Welsch, Dustin Welsch. Honorary pallbearers will be Maxine Taylor, Ted Taylor, Marci Winter, Eddie Mayhew, Gaycha Mayhew, Doris Dixon, Lawrence Dixon, Linda Koepping, Jim Foster, Mildred Grings, and Tom Grings. A luncheon will be held at the Zion Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall following the committal services.

Mrs. Shay was born Oct. 29, 1925, in Hardy, the daughter of Wilber and Ida May Folley Reed. She married Dr. Eugene Shay on Feb. 17, 1947, in Davenport.

She was devoted to her granddaughter and great-grandchildren and family.

She was the office manager of the Shay Chiropractic Clinic for many years.

Survivors include her husband, Dr. Eugene Shay of Muscatine; Dr. Jeffrey Shay and his wife, Mary, of Muscatine; a granddaughter, Wendy Subbert and her husband, Mark, of Muscatine; great-grandchildren, Katelynn and Darion Subbert of Muscatine; four sisters, Betty Sampson and her husband, Walter of Fort Dodge, Valoice Simmons and her husband, Clarence of South Ranch, Wis., Olive Carlson of Humbolt, Marlyis Fredricksen of San Anna, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her parents, son, Gregory, and a granddaughter, Cassandra, and a brother, Bud.
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