Ruth C. Baggs, 86, a longtime Eltingville resident, died Wednesday at Staten Island University Hospital in Prince's Bay.
Born Ruth Ross in Brooklyn, she moved to New Dorp in 1943 and then Grant City. After getting married, she settled in Eltingville, where she spent the last fifty years. She graduated from New Dorp High School.
Mrs. Baggs and her husband owned the Annadale Luncheonette for ten years. She also worked in the dietary department of the former Richmond Memorial Hospital, Concord, retiring in 1997.
Mrs. Baggs was a charter member of the Exceptional Children's Social Club and the Eltingville YMCA, and was a parishioner at Holy Child R.C. Church, Eltingville.
Interested in golf, she enjoyed watching the PGA tours.
"She was a fond aunt of John and Nancy Baggs and Lloyd and Joan and several nieces and nephews," said her niece, Nancy.
Her husband of forty years, Edward A., died in 1986. A son, John (Jackie) Baggs, died in 2001.
She is survived by her son, Dennis, and a sister, Ethel Scott.
The Casey-McCallum-Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Great Kills, is handling the arrangements, which include a 10:00 a.m. Mass on Tuesday at Holy Child Church.
Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on February 5, 2012.
Born Ruth Ross in Brooklyn, she moved to New Dorp in 1943 and then Grant City. After getting married, she settled in Eltingville, where she spent the last fifty years. She graduated from New Dorp High School.
Mrs. Baggs and her husband owned the Annadale Luncheonette for ten years. She also worked in the dietary department of the former Richmond Memorial Hospital, Concord, retiring in 1997.
Mrs. Baggs was a charter member of the Exceptional Children's Social Club and the Eltingville YMCA, and was a parishioner at Holy Child R.C. Church, Eltingville.
Interested in golf, she enjoyed watching the PGA tours.
"She was a fond aunt of John and Nancy Baggs and Lloyd and Joan and several nieces and nephews," said her niece, Nancy.
Her husband of forty years, Edward A., died in 1986. A son, John (Jackie) Baggs, died in 2001.
She is survived by her son, Dennis, and a sister, Ethel Scott.
The Casey-McCallum-Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Great Kills, is handling the arrangements, which include a 10:00 a.m. Mass on Tuesday at Holy Child Church.
Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on February 5, 2012.
Ruth C. Baggs, 86, a longtime Eltingville resident, died Wednesday at Staten Island University Hospital in Prince's Bay.
Born Ruth Ross in Brooklyn, she moved to New Dorp in 1943 and then Grant City. After getting married, she settled in Eltingville, where she spent the last fifty years. She graduated from New Dorp High School.
Mrs. Baggs and her husband owned the Annadale Luncheonette for ten years. She also worked in the dietary department of the former Richmond Memorial Hospital, Concord, retiring in 1997.
Mrs. Baggs was a charter member of the Exceptional Children's Social Club and the Eltingville YMCA, and was a parishioner at Holy Child R.C. Church, Eltingville.
Interested in golf, she enjoyed watching the PGA tours.
"She was a fond aunt of John and Nancy Baggs and Lloyd and Joan and several nieces and nephews," said her niece, Nancy.
Her husband of forty years, Edward A., died in 1986. A son, John (Jackie) Baggs, died in 2001.
She is survived by her son, Dennis, and a sister, Ethel Scott.
The Casey-McCallum-Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Great Kills, is handling the arrangements, which include a 10:00 a.m. Mass on Tuesday at Holy Child Church.
Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on February 5, 2012.
Born Ruth Ross in Brooklyn, she moved to New Dorp in 1943 and then Grant City. After getting married, she settled in Eltingville, where she spent the last fifty years. She graduated from New Dorp High School.
Mrs. Baggs and her husband owned the Annadale Luncheonette for ten years. She also worked in the dietary department of the former Richmond Memorial Hospital, Concord, retiring in 1997.
Mrs. Baggs was a charter member of the Exceptional Children's Social Club and the Eltingville YMCA, and was a parishioner at Holy Child R.C. Church, Eltingville.
Interested in golf, she enjoyed watching the PGA tours.
"She was a fond aunt of John and Nancy Baggs and Lloyd and Joan and several nieces and nephews," said her niece, Nancy.
Her husband of forty years, Edward A., died in 1986. A son, John (Jackie) Baggs, died in 2001.
She is survived by her son, Dennis, and a sister, Ethel Scott.
The Casey-McCallum-Rice South Shore Funeral Home, Great Kills, is handling the arrangements, which include a 10:00 a.m. Mass on Tuesday at Holy Child Church.
Burial will follow in Resurrection Cemetery, Pleasant Plains.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on February 5, 2012.
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