Ruth Pike Fooskas
Ruth Pike Fooskas of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully at home of natural causes on October 22, 2021, surrounded by her three sons. She was 94.
Ruth was born in Moylan on November 17, 1926. She was a graduate of Swarthmore High School, Temple University, and Peirce College of Business. She was a member of the Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority and maintained lifelong friendships with her sorority sisters. She married the love of her life, James (Jim) Fooskas, in 1955. They revisited their honeymoon spot in Bermuda every five years to celebrate their wedding anniversary, and were happily married for 55 years until his passing in 2010. Ruth passed away on what would have been their 66th wedding anniversary.
Ruth was a member and former regent of the Delaware County Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was also a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the Paoli Memorial Association, the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, and the Wallingford Presbyterian Church.
Ruth and Jim traveled the country and the world. She spent summers at her vacation home on the North East River in Hances Point, Maryland, and always looked forward to her annual summer fishing vacations with her children and grandchildren on East Pond in Maine. She enjoyed gardening and playing the piano, as well as playing field hockey during high school and as a young adult. She loved watching her sons and grandchildren play sports, and was also an avid Philadelphia sports fan—she especially loved following Phillies baseball.
In addition to her beloved husband, Jim, she is also predeceased by her parents, Perry Covington Pike, M.D. and Anna Hollingsworth Armstrong Pike, and her sisters, Jane Smedley Pike Buxton and Anne Hollingsworth Pike, M.D.
She is survived by her loving sons James (Debbie) Fooskas Jr. of Moylan, Dr. Perry (Susan) Fooskas of Hellertown, and Robert (Emily) Fooskas of Wallingford; grandchildren Isabel, Matilda, Adelaide, Daryl (Chip), Kelly (Caleb), Jessica (Bryce), Alexa, and Bobby Jr.; and great-grandchildren Gus, Morgan, Clarke, and Sullivan. Ruth’s family will miss her dearly.
Services were held on Thursday, October 28, at the J. Nelson Rigby Funeral Home in Media. Interment is at Media Cemetery. Condolences may be sent here.
