Emily M. Ruhf, 99, a resident of Luther Crest Retirement Community, Allentown, formerly of Emmaus, died Feb. 21, 2015. She was the wife of the late Truman J. Ruhf, Jr. Born in Emmaus, she was the daughter of the late Howard J. and Naamah J. (Reinhard) Laudenslager.

She was a graduate of Emmaus High School and Allentown Business College and was a member of the Lutheran Congregation of Jerusalem Western Salisbury Union Church, Salisbury Township, where she was a member of the choir for many years.

She was a secretary for the Clerk of Quarter Sessions, Lehigh County, the State Department of Unemployment Compensation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture; was an active life member and former assistant treasurer of the Shelter House in Emmaus; was a charter member of the Woman's Club of Emmaus and was a Girl Scout leader.

She was a member of Brookside Country Club for close to 60 years and she enjoyed being a volunteer at Luther Crest in the gift shop and as a coordinator of greeters for Sunday services for many years.

She is survived by a son, Thomas J. and his wife, Kay; granddaugthers, Charlotte Emily, of Williamsburg, Va., and Katherine Ann and her husband Brian Ledbetter; great-grandson, William Oliver, of Charleston, S.C.; grandson, T. Jason and his wife, Nikki, and great-grandson, Thomas John (Jack), of Beaufort, S.C.; daughter, Roberta J. Henry and her husband Thomas Koerber, of Newton, Mass.

Contributions may be made to the Luther Crest Benevolent Fund or Western Salisbury Lutheran Church or to the charity of choice.

Arrangements were made by the Schantz Funeral Home, P.C., Emmaus.