Sheranko, Ruby Hughes

Passed: 1970-10-06

Age: 66

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1970-10-07

Information: WOMAN DECAPITATED BY EXPLOSION IN BASEMENT - A Flatwoods resident lost her life yesterday morning (Tuesday) when a violent explosion occurred in the basement of her home.  Mrs. Ruby Sheranko, 66, of Ravenswood Rt., was decapitated when a storage tank of a submerged water pump located in the basement of the home exploded.  Mrs. Sheranko was hanging up clothes at the time.  The victim's husband, who had recently had a leg amputated, is a bed patient at home and was unable to reach his wife.  Her body was discovered by two of her sisters, Mrs. Edith Dawson and Ester Hughes, both of whom live at the Sheranko home.  They had been shopping in Ripley when the accident occurred.  Mrs. Sheranko's parents were the late Phillip S. and Margaret Wilson Hughes.  Mr. and Mrs. Sheranko lived most of their married life in the Cincinnati area where he was a U. S. Government Postal Clerk on the C and O Railroad.  Funeral services for the victim will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the Flatwoods Methodist Church with the Rev. Gerald Sayre officiating.  Interment will be in the Flatwoods Cemetery.  Survivors in addition to the husband include:  five brothers, Phillip Hughes of Ripley, Wayne and Blaine Hughes of Ravenswood, Ralston Hughes of Denver, Colorado, and Raymond Hughes of Cottageville.  three sisters, Mrs. Etta Day of Ravenswood and Ester Hughes and Mrs. Edith Dawson, both of Flatwoods.  Casto Funeral Home of Evans is in charge of arrangements.  Friends may call at the funeral home after 6:00 p.m. today, (Wednesday).  *Ruby Hughes Sheranko, born April 8, 1904, departed this life October 6, 1970, daughter of the late Phillip S. Hughes and Margaret Belle Wilson Hughes.  She was educated in the schools of Jackson County and graduated from the Ravenswood High School with the class of 1923.  She was a teacher for a number of years in Jackson County schools, later teaching in Marion County, where she met her husband, Joseph Sheranko, who was a railway mail clerk.  She resided in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for seventeen years, later moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she resided until he retired.  Later moving to Ravenswood, where she died.