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Ruth Siegel Gitlen passed away on June 27, 2024, at Fox Trail Memory Care Living in Princeton. She was 89 years old.
Born in Brooklyn, NY to Celia and Gerald Siegel, Ruth was the eldest of three children: her brother of blessed memory, Howard Alan and her sister, Sandra. She grew up surrounded by many aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Ruth met Chester when they were thirteen and married years later in June of 1956. Moving from Brooklyn to Sayreville, NJ she was a stay-at-home mom to her three children, Mark, Eileen, and Terri. When they were all in college she decided to go back to school, graduating Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Psychology from Kean College. She went on to earn a master’s degree in statistics from Rutgers University.
Ruth was the Office Administrator of the Pediatrics Department of RMJ Medical School from 1986 until she retired. With all their children grown she and Chester moved to Greenbriar in Monroe Township. When Chester passed suddenly in 2004, Ruth was encircled by a large group of friends becoming involved with the Red Hat Ladies, taking bus trips to New York City, playing Mah Jong and Dominoes, and becoming President of the local chapter of ORT.
With all that she did, Ruth mostly cherished time spent with her family.
She will lovingly be remembered by her children, Mark (Karen) Gitlen, Terri (Alan) Woller and Eileen (David) Fisher, her grandchildren, Ben (Dana), Stephen and Jordan Woller, Jeffrey and Michelle Gitlen, John Kourtessis, Zoe Fisher, Mollie (David) Statman, her great granddaughter, Hazel Woller, her sister and brother in law, Sandy and Serge Wurman, her sister in law, Nettie Siegel, her lifelong friend, Barbara Rosenberg, as well as her many nieces and nephews.
The family requests that any donations be made to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.