Lifelong Castleton Corners resident Ruth Aagenas, 87, a retired analytic chemist and world traveler, died Thursday at her home.
A graduate of Curtis High School, where she is on the permanent honor roll, Ms. Aagenas held a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia.
She had a twenty-year career in the test labs of Pfizer Pharmaceutical in New Jersey. She retired in the 1970s.
Ms. Aagenas was an active member of Castleton Hill Moravian Church. She worked on its newsletter and participated in the outreach program, visiting patients in the Verrazano Nursing Home. She also taught children in Vacation Bible School.
She loved to travel and did so extensively throughout Europe, including Norway, where her family hailed from. She also visited "every World's Fair, no matter where it was," her family said.
Ms. Aagenas was a member of Willowbrook AARP.
Surviving are her three sisters, Anna Foley and Jennie and Carol Aagenas, with whom she made her home.
The funeral will be held on Monday from the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners, with a service at 10:00 a.m. in Castleton Hill Moravian Church.
Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on December 11, 2010.
A graduate of Curtis High School, where she is on the permanent honor roll, Ms. Aagenas held a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia.
She had a twenty-year career in the test labs of Pfizer Pharmaceutical in New Jersey. She retired in the 1970s.
Ms. Aagenas was an active member of Castleton Hill Moravian Church. She worked on its newsletter and participated in the outreach program, visiting patients in the Verrazano Nursing Home. She also taught children in Vacation Bible School.
She loved to travel and did so extensively throughout Europe, including Norway, where her family hailed from. She also visited "every World's Fair, no matter where it was," her family said.
Ms. Aagenas was a member of Willowbrook AARP.
Surviving are her three sisters, Anna Foley and Jennie and Carol Aagenas, with whom she made her home.
The funeral will be held on Monday from the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners, with a service at 10:00 a.m. in Castleton Hill Moravian Church.
Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on December 11, 2010.
Lifelong Castleton Corners resident Ruth Aagenas, 87, a retired analytic chemist and world traveler, died Thursday at her home.
A graduate of Curtis High School, where she is on the permanent honor roll, Ms. Aagenas held a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia.
She had a twenty-year career in the test labs of Pfizer Pharmaceutical in New Jersey. She retired in the 1970s.
Ms. Aagenas was an active member of Castleton Hill Moravian Church. She worked on its newsletter and participated in the outreach program, visiting patients in the Verrazano Nursing Home. She also taught children in Vacation Bible School.
She loved to travel and did so extensively throughout Europe, including Norway, where her family hailed from. She also visited "every World's Fair, no matter where it was," her family said.
Ms. Aagenas was a member of Willowbrook AARP.
Surviving are her three sisters, Anna Foley and Jennie and Carol Aagenas, with whom she made her home.
The funeral will be held on Monday from the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners, with a service at 10:00 a.m. in Castleton Hill Moravian Church.
Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on December 11, 2010.
A graduate of Curtis High School, where she is on the permanent honor roll, Ms. Aagenas held a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia.
She had a twenty-year career in the test labs of Pfizer Pharmaceutical in New Jersey. She retired in the 1970s.
Ms. Aagenas was an active member of Castleton Hill Moravian Church. She worked on its newsletter and participated in the outreach program, visiting patients in the Verrazano Nursing Home. She also taught children in Vacation Bible School.
She loved to travel and did so extensively throughout Europe, including Norway, where her family hailed from. She also visited "every World's Fair, no matter where it was," her family said.
Ms. Aagenas was a member of Willowbrook AARP.
Surviving are her three sisters, Anna Foley and Jennie and Carol Aagenas, with whom she made her home.
The funeral will be held on Monday from the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners, with a service at 10:00 a.m. in Castleton Hill Moravian Church.
Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp.
Published in the Staten Island Advance on December 11, 2010.
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