Notes for: Ruth Lois Budine
From Ronny Bodine (May 29, 2016):
From New York Federal Census Records:
1940 (23 April) Delhi, Delaware Co.: William VAN WAGNR 34 NY operator-newspaper office, Ruth 34 NY wife.
Obituary, The Hancock (NY) Herald of Thursday, 13 June 1946.
Mrs. Ruth Budine Van Wagner, wife of William Van Wagner of the Delaware Republican-Express, died on Saturday of last week in Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown. Deceased was born in Walton August 9, 1905, daughter of the late George Budine and Mrs. Harriet (Scaville) Feltman, who survives. She was married to Mr. Van Wagner Dec. 11, 1926, and the couple resided in Walton, Port Jervis and Deposit, moving to Delhi to make their home in 1938. Besides her husband and her mother, Mrs. Van Wagner is mourned by two brothers, Delos and Forest Budine, and two sisters, Mrs. Cecil Feltman and Mrs. Leon Houck, all of Walton.
Obituary, The Oneonta (NY) Star of 18 Aug 1960.
Delhi---William H. VanWagner, 54, of Delhi, shop supervisor of the Delaware-Republican Express, died suddenly yesterday morning. Funeral services will be at St. James' Episcopal Church, Lake Delaware, Delhi, at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, August 20 with the Rev. Richard Frye, rector, officiating. Burial will be in the Walton Cemetery. Mr. VanWagner was taken ill about 9 a.m., at the Delaware-Express office. He summoned his wife, who also is employed there, and Milton Alger, an employee rushed him to the Delhi Hospital, but he died enroute. A native of Walton, Mr. VanWagner was born February 17, 1906, the son of Clarence and Georgia (Washburn) VanWagner. He married Ruth Budine, of Walton, December 11, 1926. She died in June 1946. On June 18, 1947, he married Catherine Gemmel, of Delhi. He began working at the printer's trade at the Walton Reporter office. Later he was employed by the Deposit Courier, and after that on the paper in Port Jervis. In 1938 Mr. VanWagner and John B. and Charles H. Stow purchased the Delaware Express. In 1949 the newspaper was sold to Henry L. Hovemeyer and Mr. VanWagner remained to take charge of the mechanical department. He was widely known in the trade as a master printer and an excellent craftsman. He was a member of St. James' Episcopal Church, at Lake Delaware; a member of Delhi Lodge of Odd Fellows and a member of its board of trustees. He had formerly been active as a Boy Scout Leader. Surviving besides his wife, is one daughter, Patricia; one son, William, both at home; one sister, Mrs. Earl Holbrook, Rock Rift; a half-brother, Frank Hammond, Mohawk. Friends may call at the McCall Funeral Home in Delhi until service time.