Ruth Farstrup Longman

Ruth Farstrup Longman died January 1^st, 2016 in Gainesville, GA.  She was born June 1^st, 1935 in Menominee, Michigan, the daughter of Rev. Anders Ejner Farstrup and Ragnhild Madsen Farstrup.  She lived in Marinette, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, California and Des Moines, Iowa.  She attended Grandview College in Des Moines and graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara in dramatic art.  She earned a masters degree in that same field from the University of Iowa.  She was also certified in Special Education from the University of Georgia. 

She taught at Scattergood School in West Branch, Iowa, Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa.  She also was a teacher at Hilsman Middle School in Athens, Georgia and later served as Director for Gifted Education at Cedar Shoals High School in Athens.  After retirement she served as Instructor for the Open Society’s program for Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking, assigned to Macedonia, Armenia, Romania and Hungary.

In Gainesville, she was a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

She is survived by her husband of 54 years, Stanley Longman, by three sons, Alec, Eric, and Ian Longman, and by four grandchildren, Emily, Christopher, Corah, and Sienna Longman.

A funeral service will be held on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 1:00pm at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 600 S. Enota Dr., Gainesville, GA, 30501.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial gifts to one of the following: The Farstrup-Mortensen Lecture Series (http://fmlectures.org), c/o Bethania Lutheran Church, 603 Atterdag Rd, Solvang, CA 93463, or the Farstrup Memorial Scholarship in Literacy Education, c/o University of Minnesota Foundation, P.O. Box 860266, Minneapolis, MN 55486-0266.

Memorial Park Funeral Home, 2030 Memorial Park Road, Gainesville, GA  30504 is in charge of arrangements.

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