CAMDEN – Ruth Lyman Rigg, 98, died Thursday, May 8, 2008, at Anderson Inn at Quarry Hill. Born Feb. 28, 1920, in Boston, she was the daughter of Herbert and Ruth W. (Bowman). She was a graduate of Winsor School, Boston, attended Bryn Mawr College and Radcliffe, and graduated from Case Western Reserve University. She married Horace A. Rigg Jr. in 1934. Mr. Rigg was the severance professor of history of religion at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, from 1937 to 1977. Surviving are her three daughters, Alexandra R. Samaras, Diana I. Rigg and her partner, John S. Coggins, all of Camden and Margaret R. Atwood and her husband, John, of Newcastle; her son, Jonathan L. Rigg of Brunswick; one sister, Lydia W. Lyman of Bar Harbor; five grandchildren, Christian Buehner and his wife, Michelle, Amy McNaughton and her husband, Peter, Peter Buehner, Julia Stewart and Elizabeth Stewart; and three great-grandchildren, Abram and Laurel Buehner and Stuart McNaughton. She was predeceased by her husband, Horace A. Rigg Jr. in 1978; and her son, Peter W. Rigg in 1977. Services will be private and held at the convenience of the family. Memorial donations may be made to Bay Chamber Concerts, Inc., 58 Bayview St., Camden, ME 04843 or Coastal Mountains Land Trust, 101 Mount Battie St., Camden, ME 04843. Arrangements are with Long Funeral Home, 9 Mountain St., Camden.
RUTH LYMAN RIGG
