Ruth Carnahan Partridge
On Tuesday, February 18, 1986, at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Ruth Partridge, beloved wife of Barrett Partridge, after a long illness bravely borne. Dear sister of Helen, Mrs. E.N.T. Griffith, of Stratford, and sister in law of Beth, Mrs. Howell Partridge, of Barrie. Also survived by her niece Mary Caroline, Mrs. Clarence Pace, of Toronto and three nephews, Richard Partridge, of Toronto, Michael Carnahan, of Darien, Conn, and Peter Carnahan, of Harrisburg, PA. Sadly mourned by five grandnieces, and six grandnephews. Predeceased by her brother Edmund (Ted) Carnahan, of Sanibel, Florida and her sister in law, Mrs. Rose Muir of Barrie. A private funeral service was held in the chapel of Westminster Cemetery Crematorium conducted by the Rev. Robert Little M.A., B.D., of St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Maple. Arrangements by Morley Bedford Funeral Chapel. When she was enrolled at Victoria College, Ruth Carnahan chose mathematics and physics as her course, which she pursued so successfully that she graduated in 1923 at the head of her class and received two gold metals as additional awards. Prior to her marriage in 1927 she taught at Weston Collegiate. She later returned to the University of Toronto and joined the staff of the Banting and best Research Institute to do research work in physiology. During her work there she received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees and lectured the staff of the Medical Faculty at the University. She also assisted in the research that was being done for the Navy during the war and did a great deal of Red Cross work including the part she played in establishing a blood bank. After retiring she and her husband bought property in what was then known as Vaughan Township where they built a home. She turned her creative ability to craftwork, and was a charter member of Kingscrafts of King City and served a term as President of that well known organization. Her ashes will be interred in the cemetery of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church on Pine Valley Drive near to her former country home.