Obituary Dr. Ruth Gentry Osborn
Ruth Eunetta Gentry Osborn of Cookeville was born July 10, 1934 in Monterey TN to the late Thomas O Gentry and Flora Clouse of Putnam County, TN.
Ruth went to grade school in Putnam County. She graduated high school in Chicago, Illinois. Ruth excelled in the sciences at the Navy Pier at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also played the coronet. She graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School in 1959, and went on to complete in Virginia a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in child psychiatry.
After finishing her residency training in Virginia, she practiced psychiatry in Virginia and in Maryland, before Ruth returned home to Cookeville in 1991 where she practiced psychiatry, until her retirement. For a while she authored a weekly advice column Ask Dr. Gentry offering words of wisdom to write-in readers in the Herald Citizen Newspaper.
Ruth loved the hills of TN. She was raised on a farm in Monterey, and went on to Chicago to become a doctor and a psychiatrist. She returned home to her beloved TN. She considered herself “a daughter of Tennessee”. Ruth loved animals. She liked morning walks with her two Great Pyrenees dogs. She liked to read books about ancient civilizations. She liked to cook. She was generous in help to friends. After retirement, she received rental income from two dozen rental houses. For a time, during and after the death of her husband Merle, she ran Duke’s Restaurant in Algood, TN.
She is survived by her three daughters of her first marriage to Harold Reckrey: Joyce Parker of Fairfax, Virginia, Grace (Harlen) Dixon of Algood, TN, and Gloria Miller of Cookeville, TN, and two granddaughters Kara Oberle and Leslie Padilla, and one great granddaughter Audrey Oberle.
In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by one sister, one brother, two half-sisters and two half-brothers.
She married the true love of her life Merle Osborn on August 12, 1973. They lived in the Maryland for 18 years, before they built their Cookeville dream house on their mountain. They later resided in Algood, TN, where they were living when Merle passed in 2007.
Ruth had a brief marriage of 2 years in later life to William Tomlinson, who preceded her in death in 2015.
The family will have private funeral services. In lieu of flowers please make memorial tribute donations/gifts to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital at 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis TN 38105 or 1-800-822-6344 for Ruth Osborn tribute id # 11702850.
Burial of ashes will be at the Clouse Cemetery on Board Valley Road in Cookeville, next to her husband of 34 years Merle Osborn. Her grave inscription reads “A Daughter of Tennessee Comes Home.”
Ruth Eunetta Gentry Osborn of Cookeville was born July 10, 1934 in Monterey TN to the late Thomas O Gentry and Flora Clouse of Putnam County, TN.
Ruth went to grade school in Putnam County. She graduated high school in Chicago, Illinois. Ruth excelled in the sciences at the Navy Pier at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also played the coronet. She graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School in 1959, and went on to complete in Virginia a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in child psychiatry.
After finishing her residency training in Virginia, she practiced psychiatry in Virginia and in Maryland, before Ruth returned home to Cookeville in 1991 where she practiced psychiatry, until her retirement. For a while she authored a weekly advice column Ask Dr. Gentry offering words of wisdom to write-in readers in the Herald Citizen Newspaper.
Ruth loved the hills of TN. She was raised on a farm in Monterey, and went on to Chicago to become a doctor and a psychiatrist. She returned home to her beloved TN. She considered herself “a daughter of Tennessee”. Ruth loved animals. She liked morning walks with her two Great Pyrenees dogs. She liked to read books about ancient civilizations. She liked to cook. She was generous in help to friends. After retirement, she received rental income from two dozen rental houses. For a time, during and after the death of her husband Merle, she ran Duke’s Restaurant in Algood, TN.
She is survived by her three daughters of her first marriage to Harold Reckrey: Joyce Parker of Fairfax, Virginia, Grace (Harlen) Dixon of Algood, TN, and Gloria Miller of Cookeville, TN, and two granddaughters Kara Oberle and Leslie Padilla, and one great granddaughter Audrey Oberle.
In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by one sister, one brother, two half-sisters and two half-brothers.
She married the true love of her life Merle Osborn on August 12, 1973. They lived in the Maryland for 18 years, before they built their Cookeville dream house on their mountain. They later resided in Algood, TN, where they were living when Merle passed in 2007.
Ruth had a brief marriage of 2 years in later life to William Tomlinson, who preceded her in death in 2015.
The family will have private funeral services. In lieu of flowers please make memorial tribute donations/gifts to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital at 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis TN 38105 or 1-800-822-6344 for Ruth Osborn tribute id # 11702850.
Burial of ashes will be at the Clouse Cemetery on Board Valley Road in Cookeville, next to her husband of 34 years Merle Osborn. Her grave inscription reads “A Daughter of Tennessee Comes Home.”
Obituary Dr. Ruth Gentry Osborn
Ruth Eunetta Gentry Osborn of Cookeville was born July 10, 1934 in Monterey TN to the late Thomas O Gentry and Flora Clouse of Putnam County, TN.
Ruth went to grade school in Putnam County. She graduated high school in Chicago, Illinois. Ruth excelled in the sciences at the Navy Pier at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also played the coronet. She graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School in 1959, and went on to complete in Virginia a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in child psychiatry.
After finishing her residency training in Virginia, she practiced psychiatry in Virginia and in Maryland, before Ruth returned home to Cookeville in 1991 where she practiced psychiatry, until her retirement. For a while she authored a weekly advice column Ask Dr. Gentry offering words of wisdom to write-in readers in the Herald Citizen Newspaper.
Ruth loved the hills of TN. She was raised on a farm in Monterey, and went on to Chicago to become a doctor and a psychiatrist. She returned home to her beloved TN. She considered herself “a daughter of Tennessee”. Ruth loved animals. She liked morning walks with her two Great Pyrenees dogs. She liked to read books about ancient civilizations. She liked to cook. She was generous in help to friends. After retirement, she received rental income from two dozen rental houses. For a time, during and after the death of her husband Merle, she ran Duke’s Restaurant in Algood, TN.
She is survived by her three daughters of her first marriage to Harold Reckrey: Joyce Parker of Fairfax, Virginia, Grace (Harlen) Dixon of Algood, TN, and Gloria Miller of Cookeville, TN, and two granddaughters Kara Oberle and Leslie Padilla, and one great granddaughter Audrey Oberle.
In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by one sister, one brother, two half-sisters and two half-brothers.
She married the true love of her life Merle Osborn on August 12, 1973. They lived in the Maryland for 18 years, before they built their Cookeville dream house on their mountain. They later resided in Algood, TN, where they were living when Merle passed in 2007.
Ruth had a brief marriage of 2 years in later life to William Tomlinson, who preceded her in death in 2015.
The family will have private funeral services. In lieu of flowers please make memorial tribute donations/gifts to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital at 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis TN 38105 or 1-800-822-6344 for Ruth Osborn tribute id # 11702850.
Burial of ashes will be at the Clouse Cemetery on Board Valley Road in Cookeville, next to her husband of 34 years Merle Osborn. Her grave inscription reads “A Daughter of Tennessee Comes Home.”
Ruth Eunetta Gentry Osborn of Cookeville was born July 10, 1934 in Monterey TN to the late Thomas O Gentry and Flora Clouse of Putnam County, TN.
Ruth went to grade school in Putnam County. She graduated high school in Chicago, Illinois. Ruth excelled in the sciences at the Navy Pier at the University of Illinois at Chicago where she also played the coronet. She graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School in 1959, and went on to complete in Virginia a residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in child psychiatry.
After finishing her residency training in Virginia, she practiced psychiatry in Virginia and in Maryland, before Ruth returned home to Cookeville in 1991 where she practiced psychiatry, until her retirement. For a while she authored a weekly advice column Ask Dr. Gentry offering words of wisdom to write-in readers in the Herald Citizen Newspaper.
Ruth loved the hills of TN. She was raised on a farm in Monterey, and went on to Chicago to become a doctor and a psychiatrist. She returned home to her beloved TN. She considered herself “a daughter of Tennessee”. Ruth loved animals. She liked morning walks with her two Great Pyrenees dogs. She liked to read books about ancient civilizations. She liked to cook. She was generous in help to friends. After retirement, she received rental income from two dozen rental houses. For a time, during and after the death of her husband Merle, she ran Duke’s Restaurant in Algood, TN.
She is survived by her three daughters of her first marriage to Harold Reckrey: Joyce Parker of Fairfax, Virginia, Grace (Harlen) Dixon of Algood, TN, and Gloria Miller of Cookeville, TN, and two granddaughters Kara Oberle and Leslie Padilla, and one great granddaughter Audrey Oberle.
In addition to her parents she is preceded in death by one sister, one brother, two half-sisters and two half-brothers.
She married the true love of her life Merle Osborn on August 12, 1973. They lived in the Maryland for 18 years, before they built their Cookeville dream house on their mountain. They later resided in Algood, TN, where they were living when Merle passed in 2007.
Ruth had a brief marriage of 2 years in later life to William Tomlinson, who preceded her in death in 2015.
The family will have private funeral services. In lieu of flowers please make memorial tribute donations/gifts to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital at 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis TN 38105 or 1-800-822-6344 for Ruth Osborn tribute id # 11702850.
Burial of ashes will be at the Clouse Cemetery on Board Valley Road in Cookeville, next to her husband of 34 years Merle Osborn. Her grave inscription reads “A Daughter of Tennessee Comes Home.”
