Ruth Virginia Messing

     Ruth Virginia Messing was born on 19 June 1917 Detroit, Michigan. She was the daughter of Claus A. Messing and Anna Palmer. Ruth and Richard Woodrow Leake were married 12 October 1940 Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, They were both listed as living in Alhambra, California, at the time, He was in the Navy.¹ Ruth Virginia Messing and Richard Woodrow Leake were divorced on 1 August 1949 Multnomah County, Oregon.² Ruth and Richard Woodrow Leake were married 29 May 1952 Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.³ Ruth Virginia Messing died 22 January 2007, in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon at age 89 years, 7 months and 3 days.

Ruth V. Leake died Jan. 22, 2007, at age 89.
Ruth V. Messing was born June 19, 1917, in Detroit, Mich., and moved to Portland in the early 1920s. She graduated from Washington High School and was instructional materials manager for Grant High School.
Survivors include her sons, Alan and Jon; sister, Lois Todd; five grandchldren; and three great-grandchildren.

Remembrances to the Oregon Heart Association. Arrangements by Rose City.⁴
     Ruth and Richard had two children, Alan and Jon.