Spruill, Ruth Catherine. Suddenly, on Sunday, March 31, 1940, at Columbia Hospital, Ruth Catherine Spruill, beloved wife of Franklin T. Spruill and daughter of Hattie M. and the late Robert E. Clements. Funeral services at her mother's residence, 300 A st. s.e., on Wednesday, April 3, at 9:15 a.m.; thence to St. Paul's Catholic Church, 15th and V sts. N.w., where requiem mass will be offered at 10 a.m. Interment Congressional Cemetery.