Ruth Reid Gjessing Obituary

It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Ruth Reid Gjessing of Westmore, Vermont, born in Burlington, Vermont, who passed away at the age of 96, on March 9, 2021. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family.

She was loved and cherished by many people including: her parents, Joanna Reid and Croft; her children, Timothy, Bradley and Martha; her husband Erland; her children-in-law, Victoria, Margaret Lowry and Robert Stymeist; her grandchildren-in-law, Peter and Laura; her sister Esther Reid Friedrichs of Livonia, Michigan; her sister-in-law Helen Gjessing of Shelburne, Vermont; and her nieces and nephews, Thomas Friedrichs of Atlanta, Georgia, David Friedrichs of Ann Arbor, Anne Friedrichs of Middlebury, Vermont, Mark Friedrichs of Bethesda, Maryland, Sarah Friedrichs Collins of Lake Forest, Illinois, Linda Friedrichs Nelson of Nashville, Tennessee, Catherine Gjessing of Duxbury, Vermont and Jonathan Gjessing of South Burlington, Vermont..

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Ruth's memory to the Foundation Fighting Blindness (https://donate.fightingblindness.org) or The Vermont Land Trust (https://join.vlt.org).