Location: M-Harris

Born: May 29, 1919 Karnes City, Karnes County, Texas

Died: July 7, 2007 Meridian, Bosque County, Texas

Parents:
Henry E. Tiemann (1868 – 1926)
Emilie Augusta Krueger Lehmberg-Tiemann Soefje (1882 – 1942)

Spouse:
William W. McLennan (1916 – 1988)

Children:
William Henry McLennan (1946 – 1996)

Ruth Mae Tiemann McLennan, 88, of Clifton, died Saturday, July 7, 2007, at Meridian Manor.

Services will be 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the First United Methodist Church in Clifton. Burial will follow at China Spring Cemetery.

She was born in Karnes City, Texas, to the late Henry and Amelie Krueger Tiemann. She grew up in New Braunsfels, where she graduated from high school and attended nursing school. She married William W. McLennan on Dec. 7, 1940. As a military wife she lived in many states and the Island of Guam. She was a life long Methodist and was active in her church wherever she lived. This was especially true in Clifton. She and her husband farmed and ranched near Clifton from 1958, until her health forced her to move in to Clifton. Ruth loved to play bridge and 42, entertaining and visiting with family and friends.

Ruth was preceded in death by her husband in 1988; son, William Henry McLennan, in 1996; sisters, Gladys Holtermann and Lillian Herring; and three nieces.

Surviving her are grandchildren, Douglas William McLennan, of Abilene and Sharon Elizabeth McLennan, of Zephyr; nephews, John Holtermann, Jr., of China Spring and Reverend David Lehmberg; sister-in-laws, Sally Jo and Robert Truhlar Sr., of China Spring and Louise and Rex Dee, of Oklahoma City; brother-in-law, Lone D. McLennan and wife, Helen, of Spring; nieces, Ruth Carole and Marvin Schutza, of Athens, Ga., Jean Ann and Carl Ortmann, of Ft. Worth, Stephanie and Greg Scaefer, of Spring, and Mary Lou and Todd Frauen, of Lincoln, Neb.; a nephew, Robert Truhlar Jr., of Lincoln, Neb.; and cousins, Don and Judy Gordon, of Crockett; and many great nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.