{"id":1845,"date":"2015-07-24T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2015-07-24T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:00:14","slug":"ruth-aamoth-thomack-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/2015\/07\/ruth-aamoth-thomack-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Aamoth Thomack &#8217;48"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><a name=\"RuthAamothThomack48_D\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px; border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/48_RuthAamothThomack_D.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/>Ruth Serene Aamoth Thomack, 88, of Monroe, Mich., formerly of Litchfield, Ill., passed away into the joy and peace of her Lord on Oct. 16, 2014 at 6:56 a.m. in The Lutheran Home in Monroe. She was born on April 10, 1926 in St. Paul, Minn., a daughter of Walter I. and Mabel S. Onsgaard Aamoth. Ruth graduated from St. Olaf College in 1948 with a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and religion. She married Alwin W. Thomack on June 25, 1948 in Our Savior&#8217;s Lutheran Church on Iola, Wis. She supported her husband through seminary and served a long side him in seven different Lutheran churches throughout the Midwest. Their last parish was Trinity Lutheran in Litchfield, Ill. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Litchfield. He preceded her in death on Sept. 26, 2009. Ruth was a dedicated homemaker and mother of five. She is survived by four sons, Luther Thomack and wife Barbara, Walter Thomack and wife Yvonne, <strong>John Thomack &#8217;78<\/strong> and wife Colette, and <strong>Ernest Thomack &#8217;80<\/strong> and wife Jan; one daughter, Ruth Phillips and husband John; one sister, Elizabeth Stadem; 12 grandchildren, Rachel Zapata, Nathan, Sarah, Andrew, Timothy, and Anna Thomack, and Lisa, Joel, Kimberly, Etenesh, Emebet, and Rebecca Phillips; and two great-grandsons, James and Peter Thomack. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; brother, <strong>Robert Aamoth &#8217;48<\/strong>; sister, Marie Sleeper; and granddaughter, Christina Windoffer. The family suggests memorials to The Lutheran Hour or Board for Mission Services of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Serene Aamoth Thomack, 88, of Monroe, Mich., formerly of Litchfield, Ill., passed away into the joy and peace of her Lord on Oct. 16, 2014 at 6:56 a.m. in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","tag-obituary"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}