Ruth Widmer Obituary (2022) – Washington, DC
RUTH EMILY WIDMER “Bootsie” (Age 88)
Ruth Widmer died February 11, 2022. She was a lifelong resident of Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Ruth was born in Washington DC, the one little one of Fred and Ruth Widmer, first technology immigrants from Arbon Switzerland; … Situated on Lake Constance – der Bodensee – the place lots of her family nonetheless reside. Bootsie’s childhood was spent within the Somerset space of Bethesda, and she or he attended elementary college there. About 1945 the household moved to Colston Drive in Chevy Chase.
An alumnus of Bethesda-Chevy Chase Excessive Faculty (1951), she studied at and graduated from Stephens Faculty, a personal girls’s school in Columbia, Missouri, and later attended the College of Maryland, the place she earned her Bachelor of Arts diploma in psychology in 1956
Ruth trail-blazed fairly a lifetime of glamor, pleasure, journey, skilled and household success, and leaves a powerful legacy for others to observe. She smashed proper by way of the glass ceiling early on in her sensible profession with Julius Garfinckel’s Division Retailer, which started within the late Nineteen Fifties. Ruth shortly established herself as a vogue maven, and was promoted to senior vogue purchaser, with a fifth ground workplace within the prestigious Garfinckel’s flagship retailer at 1401 F Road, NW, Washington DC. She traveled the world, contracting for clothes manufacturing, and negotiating provide chain preparations for this legendary establishment – for the trendiest attire, and extraordinary customer support; … embracing the top of Washington’s social life.
Later she turned a Regional Supervisor for Allied Shops; … Overseeing the operations of the Garfinckel’s shops in Washington DC, Spring Valley Maryland, Tysons Nook, and Seven Corners Virginia.
Ruth was exceptionally beneficiant in caring for others, and incessantly helped out when others wouldn’t. She liked youngsters, and particularly loved their vacation visits at Halloween Trick or Treating, at Christmas, and Easter. Her cats and canines had been handled as royalty.
Bootsie by no means missed working the each day New York Instances crossword puzzle, and maintained her beautiful house and gardens on Colston Drive; … With particular consideration her crocuses, tulips, daffodils, hydrangeas, impatiens, flowering camellias, and crepe myrtles.
Ruth had no youngsters, however is survived by many pals, neighbors, and her prolonged adopted household, who will keep in mind her with nice fondness. Members of the Stuart household, initially from Bethesda, thought of Bootsie a steadfast sibling. They’re Ann Colliver of Frederick MD, Lynn Towle of Williamsport MD, Leander Stuart of Emmaus PA, Christopher Stuart – dwelling in Italy, Jeffrey Stuart of Gaithersburg MD, and James Stuart of Austin TX; … In addition to her devoted Goddaughter, Melanie Walser Reeves, of Georgetown DC.
Preparations are being made by way of Gawler’s Funeral Dwelling. A memorial occasion shall be deliberate for this spring,… all on the pre-planned course of Bootsie herself, as you’d count on.
She lived by way of a good time in historical past, and made essentially the most of it, with the best compassion. Who might ask for something extra?
The household means that memorial contributions be despatched to Kids’s Nationwide Hospital.
Revealed by The Washington Publish from Feb. 25 to Feb. 27, 2022.