Ruth Natalie Spillberg January 5, 2025

Mrs. Ruth Natalie Spillberg (Reiser) of Sharon passed away in her sleep early Sunday morning, January 5, 2025, from complications of end-stage Parkinson’s Disease. She was seventy-five years old.

A native of Boonton and Parsippany Township in North-Central New Jersey, Ruth was a dual-major Summa Cum Laude graduate of Syracuse University in Speech Communications and English. She also earned a master’s degree in Speech Communications from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in Learning Disabilities from Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. She was a faculty member of the Speech Communications Department at Curry College for thirty-eight years.

Married to her college sweetheart for fifty-three years, Ruth is survived by her husband, Barry J. Spillberg of Sharon, her brother Robert Reiser, of Sussex County, New Jersey, her two children, Keren Spillberg-Cohen and Ken S. Spillberg, and three grandsons: August, and Cole Spillberg of Brooklyn, New York, and Asher Cohen, also of Sharon.

Ruth was a life-member of Hadassah and an active member of the Temple Adath-Sharon Sisterhood.

An avid kayaker, Ruth loved nature, hiking and small children. She was instrumental in the creation of the Sharon Dog Park. She and her husband were civilian volunteers (Sherut L’Am) during the Yom Kippur War and Ruth taught English at Kibbutz Lochamei HaGettaot, the Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz, for several years afterwards.

She was a sweet woman, loved by all. She will be missed.

Graveside Service at Sharon Memorial Park, 40 Dedham St., Sharon, MA on Wednesday, January 8^th at 10:45AM. Those attending services should meet behind the administration building on the cemetery grounds prior to services.

Shiva will be held at the Spillberg residence in Sharon on Wednesday immediately following the burial.

In lieu of flowers remembrances may be made in Ruth’s memory to the:

Parkinson’s Foundation (parkinson.org)

or MSPCA-Angell (mspca.org)