Ruth Isabelle Barnett, 98, Wabash, died at 6:37 pm, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, at Peabody Healthcare Center in North Manchester. She was born Aug. 29, 1921, in Wabash County, Indiana to Henry and Rosa K. (Hipskind) Stouffer.

She was a 1939 graduate of Linlawn High School. She married L. Milton “Bud” Barnett in Wabash County on Aug. 9, 1941; he died May 3, 2007. She retired from First National Bank in Wabash after 23 years. She was a member of the Wabash Friends Church. Ruth was a Wabash Co. Hospital Auxiliary Volunteer many years. She enjoyed cross-stitching, playing scrabble, making crackerjack and having cracker jack parties, pie baking, and traveling to Minnesota, with her husband Bud, in the fall.

She is survived by her daughter, Joan B. Younce of Warsaw; two grandchildren, Michael R. (Ann Marie) Younce of Superior, Colo.; and Emily B. (Ryan) Kennedy of Valparaiso;, four great-grandchildren, Alexandra Younce and Matthew Younce, both of Superior; and Cade Kennedy and Ian Kennedy, both of Valparaiso; and her sister, Frances Stewart, of Monon.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, daughter, Judy Barnett, two brothers, Joe Stouffer and Robert Stouffer, and three sisters, Katherine Vrooman, Elizabeth Miller, and Alice Petry.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m., Monday, Sept. 16, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash, with David Phillips officiating. Burial will be in Friends Cemetery, Wabash. Friends may call 2-6 p.m. Sunday, at the funeral home.

Preferred memorial is Wabash Friends Church.