RUBY STELZER
Published 11:42 am Thursday, September 16, 2010
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Ruby Blanton Stelzer, 85, of Las Cruces, died Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, at her home. Ruby was born April 14, 1925, in Volga, Ky., to the late Albert A. Blanton and Louolli Gullette.
She was a graduate of Green Township High School at Franklin Furnace and entered cadet nurse training in Huntington, W.Va. She served as an Air Force nurse during the Korean Conflict. She taught nursing at Western NM University and homemakers home health for the University of Galveston at Fort Bayard.
Surviving are her husband, Frank A. Stelzer; a son, Alan Stelzer; two daughters, Donna Dickinson and Debra Piazza; and a sister, Mary Bishop of Ironton.
A funeral mass will be Monday at 10 a.m. at Terrazas Funeral Chapels, Santa Clara. Burial will be in Fort Bayard National Cemetery with full military honors. Friends may call from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.