Tuesday, January 20, 1998

Ruth U. Caltumo

Worked as nurses' aide for many years

Ruth U. Caltumo, 69, of McDonald, died Monday, January 19, 1998.

She was born January 28, 1928, in Berlin, Germany, a daughter of Alfred and Frieda Artz Kluth.

Mrs. Caltumo worked as a nurses' aide for the Methodist Home on Bower Hill Road in Mt. Lebanon for 11 years and as a private duty nurses' aide for five years.

She was a member of Hickory Presbyterian Church.

On March 31, 1955, she married Alfred J. "Bear" Caltumo, who died March 17, 1989.

Surviving are a son, Alfred Ronald Caltumo of Hickory; a daughter, Janet Mary Wussick of McDonald; two brothers, Gunter and Wolfgang Kluth, both of Berlin, Germany; a sister, Loni Barthelemy of Stoughton, Mass.; and five grandchildren, Diane and Donald Wussick Jr., and Alfred R. Jr., Krystle and John C. Caltumo.

A son, Harry Caltumo, died in 1987.





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