ENABNIT, Ruth Wanda

The Prescott Courier, Prescott, Arizona Wednesday, January 3, 2007 Ruth Wanda (Wells) Enabnit was born on June 19, 1913, to James and Mildred Wells, somewhere along the road between Washburn and Bismarck, North Dakota, in a Cadillac automobile and passed peacefully to her rest on Dec. 31, 2006 on a farm outside Glencoe, Minn. Her first 10 years were spent on her family's homestead near Sanger, Oliver County, North Dakota west of the Missouri River. Her family later moved to Clinton, Iowa, where she lived until1934, when she moved to Chicago to work for the Navy Department at Great Lakes Naval Training Station. There she met Harry Enabnit and they were married in Clinton in 1939. After Harry retired from the Navy in 1958, he and Wanda lived in Iowa, Minnesota and Grand Canyon, Ariz., where they worked for the Fred Harvey Co., the National Park Service and the Grand Canyon Airport. Wanda relocated to Prescott after Harry's death in 1990. She was a member of the First Congregational Church. Wanda truly enjoyed her hobbies of traveling, reading, Amateur Radio and volunteer work at the Sharlot Hall Museum and the Prescott Blind Center. She toured much of Alaska prior to statehood, most of Canada, Europe, the Philippines and all states of the Union, and she especially loved tales of exploration in Alaska, Canada, and the Arctic. Active in a local Ham Radio group Wanda enjoyed helping new Hams in every way possible, especially in CW (Morse Code), her favorite mode. She achieved her Extra rating at age 83 and also became a Volunteer Examiner. Some readers may remember that her call sign was ‘AB7VH.’ Wanda was preceded in death by her husband; two brothers; two sisters; and two grandsons, James Lowell Andrews and James Cole Jarrell. She is survived by a son, Neil, of Prescott; and three daughters, Sheila Jarrell of Prescott, Maida of Thousand Oaks, Calif, and Jean of Glencoe, Minn.;grandchildren Geneva, Renata, Richard, Robert, Andrea, John, James, Jacob and Maida (Jarrell) Furnia; and great-grandchildren, Kayla, Andrew, Hilda, Brandon and Reagan. Wanda was an amazing woman, and she will be deeply missed by her family and her many friends. A graveside service will be on Sunday, Jan. 7, at 2 p.m. at the Sanger Cemetery in Washburn, North Dakota. Information provided by survivors.