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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., December 8, 1955, page 1

SERVICES SATURDAY FOR RALPH WOODRUFF

Ralph E. Woodruff, prominent Trout Lake resident and lumber man, passed away December 5 at Skyline Hospital.
He was born November 12, 1889 at Gibbon, Nebraska.
He is survived by his wife Elva and son, George E. Woodruff, both of Trout Lake; a daughter, Nancy Ruth Woodruff, of Tacoma, where she has been attending College of Puget Sound; two grandchildren, his mother, Mary Woodruff of White Salmon; a brother Eugene Woodruff; and a sister, Mrs. R.H. Bainton of New Haven, Connecticut.
Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Trout Lake high school gymnasium. Burial will be at Trout Lake.
Those who prefer to send a donation to a memorial fund, may make a contribution to Skyline hospital to apply on the incubator fund.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., December 8, 1955, page 1

RALPH WOODRUFF RITES SATURDAY

Funeral services for Ralph E. Woodruff, 66, Trout Lake, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 at the Trout Lake school. Mr. Woodruff died Monday, Dec. 5, at Skyline. Death was ascribed to myrocardial infraction, a heart aliment. He had been hospitalized since Nov. 20.
His obituary will be published next week when full particulars are obtainable. Gardners are in charge. Burial will be in Trout Lake.

The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., December 15, 1955, page 5

SERVICES HELD AT TROUTLAKE

Trout Lake (special). Services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, for Ralph Emerson Woodruff, 66, in the Trout Lake school auditorium. Gardners funeral service was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in the Trout Lake cemetery. Ralph Emerson Woodruff was born Nov. 12, 1889 at Gibbon, Nebraska to Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Woodruff. He attended grade school and academy at Grand Island, Neb. and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Whitman College in 1912.
Ralph served with the U.S. Army during W.W.I. In 1912, he and Elva Pearson were married and settled in Trout Lake where had taken over his father's business, the Mt. Adams Lumber Co.
He was a member of the Trout Lake Presbyterian church and served there as elder, Sunday School superintendent and teacher. He especially enjoyed worked with young people and children.
Mr. Woodruff was hospitalized at Skyline for a heart ailment last Nov. 20. He died there Monday, Dec. 5.
He is survived by his wife Elva; daughter, Nancy Ruth, and son, George, all of Trout Lake; mother, Mrs. C.E. Woodruff of White Salmon; sister Mrs. R.H. Bainton of New Haven, Conn.; brother, Dr. C.E. Woodruff of Northville, Michigan; and two grandchildren, Kathleen and Karen.