Rita May Kimball

March 22, 1926 - December 25, 2016

Rita May Kimball, age 90, of Toledo, OH passed away Sunday, December 25, 2016 at ProMedica Ebeid Hospice Residence in Sylvania, OH. She was born on March 22, 1926 to Mark and Anna DeLuca in Mt. Carmel, PA. After graduating from Mt. Carmel High School, she moved to New York City, where she met Jack Edwin Kimball. They were married on November 29, 1947 in Hartford City, IN and the following year they moved to Mt. Gilead, OH. In 1964, they moved to Fremont, OH where they were both active in Grace Community Church for many years. Following the death of her husband in 1992, she became a resident of Bethany Place Retirement Center in Fremont, and later moved to Senior Star at West Park Place in Toledo in 2004. Rita is survived by daughter Carol Kimball of Chicago, IL, and sons Mark (Carol) Kimball of Toledo, OH and James (Susan) Kimball of Colorado Springs, CO, and her brother Thomas of Westbury, NY. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers Vincent and Robert, and sister, Rose Ferranti. Rita’s family would like to thank the staff at West Park Place, and her caregivers at Senior Care Management and ProMedica Ebeid Hospice Residence. Services will be private, with interment at Greenlawn Memory Gardens in Clyde, OH. Arrangements were handled by Ansberg-West Funeral Directors in Toledo.