Ruth Helen Birky
February 9, 1926 – October 7, 2023
Ruth Helen (Gerig) Birky, 97, of Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada, and more recently of Albany and Lebanon, Oregon, died on October 7, 2023, at The Oaks of Lebanon. Ruth was the daughter of Christian Conrad and Ida Ellen (Boshart) Gerig, and was born on February 9, 1926, in a house that still stands near Cottonwoods, a few miles east of Albany, Oregon. She attended Lakeview…