Ruth Scheffer

Ruth Scheffer, 80, of Rosebud, died Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, in a Temple Hospital. 

Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14, at First Lutheran Church in Rosebud. Rev. Grayson Albers and Rev. Barry Sharp will officiate. Burial will follow in Woodland Cemetery in Rosebud.

Mrs. Scheffer was born on July 10, 1941, in Riesel to Edwin and Evelyn Behringer Abel. She was baptized and confirmed at Grace Lutheran Church in Mart. She graduated from Riesel High School in 1959 and received her Associates Degree from McLennan Community College in Waco. She married Leslie Scheffer on Aug. 17, 1963. She worked for General Tire in Waco, The Texas Workforce Commission, and the Office of the Attorney General. She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Rosebud.

She was preceded in death by her husband.

She is survived by her daughter, Brenda Rose of Temple; one brother, Alan Abel of Lorena; and one sister, Carol Emley of Waco. She is also survived by her God-Grandchildren and God-Great-Grandchildren, Zerlentria Moore, James and Jamhia Roughley, Andrew Moore Jr., Jayden, Kaybri, Callie, Andrew Moore III, and Zy’ne, Julisa Jackson, Braydon, Mariah, and Messiah Jackson.

Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, at Cook-Gerngross-Green-Patterson Funeral Home in Rosebud.