Ruby June Rhoades of Elgin, the first female executive in the Church of the Brethren, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1985, in her home.Mrs. Ruby Rhoades, wife of Benton Rhoades of 1209 Morton Ave., Elgin, Ill. 60120, formerly of Astoria, died Monday, Jan. 7, 1985, at Elgin.
Visitation will be held at a funeral home in Elgin on Friday afternoon.
Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First Church of the Brethren in Elgin.
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Ruby June Rhoades of Elgin, the first female executive in the Church of the Brethren, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1985, in her home.
Ruby Rhoades was the wife of J. Benton Rhoades, formerly of Astoria.
She was born June 1, 1923, in Beatty, Kans., to Ira and Hattie Sellers Frantz.
She had been a missionary in Ecuador for ten years, and an advertising director for a religious book firm in New Jersey for ten years. She was a representative of the Church of the Brethren in Washington for two and a half years.
For the last five years, Mrs. Rhoades has been the first woman to serve the Church of the Brethren at the level of the executive of the World Ministries Commission. She was administrator for the outreach and development programs of the Church of the Brethren throughout the world, including mission, volunteer service, peace and justice, refugee resettlement, international self-help and international relations, agricultural exchange programs and outreach and development programs on six continents.
She also served on a number of committees and boards of the National Council of Churches.
Surviving are her family, J. Benton Rhoades, her husband; three daughters, Jeanne Marie Smucker of Tipton, Ind., Janet Lee Shull of Muncie, Ind., and Rebecca Ann Choitz of Philadelphia, Pa.; one son, Bob Rhoades of Philadelphia, Pa.; eight grandchildren; one sister, Marilyn Frantz of Dallas, Tex.; and four brothers, Galen Frantz of Stanwood, Mich., Jacob Frantz of Kettering, Ohio, Robert Frantz of Largo, Fla., and Alan Frantz of Wayland, Mass.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Ira and Hattie Sellers Frantz, and by her stepmother, Alta Williams Frantz.
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