BIRDEN, Ruby (Libby) Elizabeth (Sittler) 85, Born January 19, 1921 
in Wabash Co., Indiana. Died May 30, 2006 in Lebanon, Warren Co., 
OH. Parents: Larsh J. Sittler and Hazel Mamie (Foster) Sittler. She is 
survived by her husband of 63 years John H. Birden, daughter Gail L, 
Birden, son and daughter-in-law Larsh A. Birden and Cindy Birden, 
daughter Leslie A. (Birden) Bailey and granddaughter Emma Ruth Bailey, 
and daughter and son-in-law Lisa M. (Birden) Garland and Robert W. 
Garland and grandsons Robert N. Garland and William E. Garland. She is 
also survived by sisters Mary Lou Caldwell and Joann Hill, both of Indiana, 
20 nieces and nephews and many great-nieces and great-nephews. She 
was preceded in death by her parents Larsh and Hazel Sittler, sisters Clair 
Hessel, Lucille Forbes, and infant sister Abigail. She taught 14 years in the 
West Carrollton school system and for 6 years in a private kindergarten. 
She attended Indiana Central (aka University of Indianapolis) where she met 
and later married her husband John and moved to Ohio. She completed her 
bachelors degree at Miami University and later returned to earn her Masters 
in Education. She was active in the American Field Service foreign exchange 
student program. She loved travel; crisscrossing the United States after 
etirement with her husband in an Airstream trailer and joining one of the first 
Airstream-organized trips to China. For many years they were members of a 
local Good Sam travel club and the local Airstream travel club. She indulged 
her passion for knitting; sharing her knowledge, skill, and experience with 
daughters and friends through gifts, insightful advice, and gentle patience. She 
was a member of the Memorial United Methodist Church of West Carrollton, OH. 
She is lovingly remembered by family and friends as a woman of quiet dignity 
having a gentle, patient spirit who touched the lives of many, especially children 
she taught, with faithful goodness. A memorial service will be held Saturday June 
10th, 1:00 at the Memorial United Methodist Church of West Carrollton. 
Arrangements by Oswald-Hoskins Funeral Home, Lebanon. 
Published in the Dayton Daily News on 6/6/2006.