Daily News | Ruth J. Rainer, psychologist, teacher, world traveler, and volunteer, has died at 97
Ruth J. Rainer, 97, of Elverson, retired psychologist, mental health teacher, world traveler, and volunteer, died Wednesday, Dec. 14, of heart failure at the Watermark at Bellingham retirement community in West Chester.
She became a world traveler, especially after her second husband died in 1994, and spent months every year for decades at her “home away from home” in Venice, Italy. She escorted her children and grandchildren on unforgettable vacations to England, Wales, Scotland, Greece, Norway, and Japan and made it a point to meet new people and immerse herself in whichever culture she lived.
She earned a nursing degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1943 and later focused her psychology practice on divorce, suicide, and family trauma. She was “always ready to discuss life’s big questions in a compassionate way,” her family said in aShe celebrated her 80th birthday with a trip around the world on the Queen Elizabeth 2, rode a camel in Egypt, and counseled clients until just a few years ago. Her family noted her “curiosity and love of learning.
After a divorce in 1973, she married Dietmar Schmidtke in 1989. Her husband, former husband, and son Brad died earlier.
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