Ruth M. Pahl, a longtime cafeteria manager for Baltimore County schools, died Tuesday at Copper Ridge in Sykesville after a long battle with dementia. She was 84.
Mrs. Pahl was a resident of Eldersburg for more than 25 years before her illness.
Ruth M. Westgate was born in Baltimore, one of five children. She attended Baltimore County public schools and married Walter C. Pahl Sr., a Baltimore County firefighter, in 1941. Mr. Pahl died in 1993.
Mrs. Pahl worked for 30 years in Baltimore County public schools cafeterias and retired from the cafeteria at Deer Park Middle School.