Ruth Grun Silberstein

Dr. Ruth Grun Silberstein, 90, of Portland, Oregon died Saturday at her home.

Born April 6, 1921 she was a native of the Wyoming Valley and a daughter of the late Oswald A. and Ruth E. McGinley Grun and step-daughter of the late John Wilton.

A 1939 graduate of Meyers High School, Ruth earned her B.A. from Wellesley in 1943 and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr in 1952.

Ruth served in the U.S. map service during World War II as a cartographer. In the fall of 1945 she joined the Red Cross and was stationed in Japan to support the 11th Airborne Division of the U.S. occupation army. She later became a professor in the field of 17th century British history, and taught at colleges in Binghamton, New York, Harrisonburg, Virginia, Greensboro, North Carolina, Lexington, Kentucky, and at Wilkes University.

Ruth married Dr. Gerard. E. Silberstein in 1961 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the couple settled in Lexington, Kentucky for the next four decades.

Ruth is survived by her daughter, Dr. Marian E. Silberstein of Hillsboro, Oregon, and two first cousins, Nancy Jane McGinley Dupuy of Manhattan, New York, and Dell McGinley Simeone of Westfield, New Jersey.

Celebration of Ruth’s Life will be held Saturday with visitation from 10 AM to 1 PM at McLaughlin’s, 142 South Washington Street in Wilkes-Barre. Graveside services at Saint Mary's Cemetery in Hanover Township will follow.

Permanent messages and memories can be shared with Ruth’s family at www.celebrateherlife.com