Ruth M. Tucker

Ruth Mildred Tucker, 98, passed away in Sandpoint, Idaho on Thursday, May 19, 2011. Funeral services will be conducted 3:30PM Saturday, May 28, 2011 at the Sandpoint 7th Day Adventist Church. Private burial will take place in Pinecrest Memorial Park. Ruth was born in Ferdinand, Idaho on September 3, 1912, the daughter of Elmo and Mary (Wagner) Kincaid. She grew up on the Camas Prairie until the family lost their wheat and cattle operation in 1930. She graduated from the Mt. Ellas Academy in Bozeman, Montana. The family moved to the Walla Walla Valley and in 1932 came to the Naples area where her Aunt Eva (Frank) Brown had a sawmill. She cooked in the Brown’s logging camps and met her future husband Alfred J. Tucker. They were married on Dec. 27, 1932 in Walla Walla, Washington. She became an LPN, working at the Page Hospital. She worked at the Sandpoint Manor, Bonner General Hospital and for Dr. John Smith and Dr. Franz Siemsen retiring in 1974. For 16 years she enjoyed traveling in the United States and Hawaii and spending her winters in Wickenburg, Arizona. She loved her family and her church. Ruth is survived by 3 children Dick Tucker and Wendell Tucker in Sandpoint and her daughter Marjorie Dillon in Parker, Colorado; 8 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and 5 great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, 5 brothers and 2 sisters.