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Mary Rugg

March 28, 1913 — August 6, 2011

Mary S. Rugg, 98, a longtime Casa Grande resident, died peacefully in her sleep on Aug. 6, 2011, in Tucson.
Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Inurnment will be in Mountain View Cemetery. A reception will begin at noon at First Presbyterian Church’s Family Life Center.
Mrs. Rugg was born in Hayden on March 28, 1913, to George A. and Hazel Vasti Sligh. She spent her preschool years living at a family-owned mine south of Sells and moved to Tucson to begin school. Following graduation from Tucson High School in 1931 she entered St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing and graduated in 1934. She worked at Thomas-Davis Clinic in Tucson until her marriage to O.W. Rugg in 1938, when she moved to Casa Grande. She then became a government nurse in Pinal County, working with Dr. H.B. Lehmberg. She resigned to start a family in 1943 and spent 25 years as a full-time mother and homemaker.
She then trained as a surgical nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix and worked at Hoemako Hospital in Casa Grande. Upon the death of her husband in 1969, she took on the management of Rugg Dairy in Casa Grande as another career. After sale of the dairy, she again went to school to become a real estate agent, having yet another career until her retirement at age 80.
Survivors include five daughters and sons, Cynthia Thornvold and Hazel Rugg of Tucson, Mary Louise Rugg of Nederland, Colo., William L. “Bill” Rugg of Loveland, Colo., and Paul A. Rugg of Los Gatos, Calif.; a sister, Ida Storey of Casa Grande; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband and three brothers, George A. Sligh Jr., Robert M. and Cline Sligh.
Donations may be made to: Casa Grande Food Bank, 235 E. Fourth St., Casa Grande, AZ 85122.
J. Warren Funeral Services, Cole & Maud The Gardens Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

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