Sunday Record Herald

NIHIZER, RUTH MURRAY (NEE: PEFFLY) - Ruth (Peffly) Murray Nihizer, 85, formerly of Englewood, died on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008, at Good Samaritan Hospital. She was born on Dec. 26, 1924, in Randolph Township. She graduated from Bethel College and Miami University, taught at Bethel College and retired from Troy Schools as a fourth grade teacher. She was a member of Phillipsburg Missionary Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Herman and Minnie (Burges) Peffly; husbands, Russell Murray and Lowell Nihizer; step-son, John Nihizer; and one sister, Marie. She is survived by her step children, Jim and Margaret Egan, Beverly and Paul Baker, Dick and Betty Nihizer, Ruth and LeRoy Sowers, Lowell Ray and Carlene Nihizer and Jim and Beverly Murray; several step grandchildren and step great-grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law Gladys and Ray Wertz; and special nephew Bob Wertz and wife Kaye. Services were held Dec. 31 at the Hale-Sarver Funeral Home, West Milton, with pastor Robert Kurtz officiating. Burial was in Minnich Cemetery.