Ruth W. Mead
Image by McMillan Memorial Library Portrait Gallery
Mrs. Mead was the wife of George W. Mead and the daughter of the late Jere D. Witter and Emily L. Witter of this city. Mrs. Mead was born in this city, then called Grand Rapids, on October 29, 1875, and died in this same city August 24, 1939 at her beautiful residence on The Island.
Mr. Isaac P. Witter is a surviving brother and Mrs. R. F. Johnson is a surviving sister by adoption. The J. D. Witter residence was on Third Street South on the site of the present residence of Mr. and Mrs. I. P. Witter.
Mrs. Mead attended the local schools, graduating from the Howe High School, following that was a member of the Class of 1896 at the University of Wisconsin and finished her education by a year of travel and study in Europe, at Lausanne, Switzerland, Paris, and Berlin. She enjoyed French literature and French conversation throughout her life.
Her marriage to George W. Mead of Rockford, Illinois took place on October 18, 1899. They resided at Rockford until the fall of 1902 when they moved to Wisconsin Rapids, Together they planned and built their beautiful home on The Island in 1912, and in 1930 they acquired and improved their Miami Beach home in Florida where subsequent winters have been spent.
Mrs. Mead sustained a strong loyalty to Wisconsin Rapids, its institutions and its people, all through life. She was bound to the community be tradition, by friendships, by having shared in its development, by continued interest in the pulse of its activity. New generations came under her loving observation from the minute of birth, so there was hardly a child which she could not identify and place in the pattern of relationships and connections. As High School graduating classes came on, year after year, her mail box became laden with Commencement Invitation cards sent by her admirers and each was favored with a remembrance.
Mrs. Mead’s choice of friends and appraisal of character was based on what one term true values. She tolerated no superficiality, hypocrisy, not inconsistency. She believed in the deep, abiding principles of Christianity, actively, persistently, – by personal example and by encouragement of them in others. She loved people, forming her friendships among those in all circumstances, and in all fields of endeavor. People loved her, enjoying their contacts with her and delightful conversations when meeting her.
Mrs. Mead loved beauty in all forms. Her appreciation of it was contagious and inspired others. She expressed this love of beauty creatively in her home and gardens, she fostered it for others in supporting art and beauty in literature, music, drama, painting, and architecture. She supported every civic undertaking of this nature and offered her home on many occasions for concerts and lectures.
Mrs. Mead loved most of all her home and family, fulfilling first her position as wife and mother. Her family life with Mr. Mead, her three children, her two daughters-in-law and one son-in-law, and her nine grandchildren continued as a constant sourse of happiness and inspiration to her. Second only to her home was the interest in the Congregational church and in the Church and Sunday School activities, which she supported and in which she exercised leadership and devoted attention throughout her life.
Mrs. Ruth W. Mead is survived by her husband, George W. Mead, by her two sons, Stanton W. Mead and Walter L. Mead, by her daughter, Mrs. Emily M. Baldwin, and by nine grandchildren.
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