Class of 1923
Classical Course

Birth: 9 Aug 1903, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Death: 6 Jan 1990, Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA

Parents: 
James Rufus Douglas Lentz (1871-1940)
Elizabeth Estelle Cress (1873-1935)

Spouse: Ira Bohrer (1903-1982)
Marriage: 22 Jun 1935, Manhattan, New York City, New York

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Attended Nussman School in Gold Hill prior to Mont Amoena. Attended Lenoir Rhyne (Hickory, NC) 1925; graduated Catawba College (1927), George Washington University (Library Science – 1930), Catawba College, University of North Carolina, New York University. B. A Degree in Library Science

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The Herald-News (Passaic, NJ), 1 Nov 1935, p.32

Franklin Parent-Teachers’ Association will meet Wednesday, November 6 at the Franklin School at 3:15. Mrs. Ira Bohrer, Lyndhurst High School librarian will speak on “The Importance of Books.”

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The Record (Hackensack, New Jersey) 12 Oct 1946, 1

Paramus Houses Looted of $2,206

Armed with detailed descriptions of their prey, Paramus police today were searching for a pair of thieves who methodically ransacked two Paramus homes in broad daylight yesterday, making off with $2,206 in clothing, jewelry, and cash…

While investigating this case, Sergeant Van Binsberger was called to Highland Avenue, where Mr. and Mrs. Ira Bohrers reported that $488 in clothing and jewelry had been stolen. Both the Bohrers and the Kerbys were away from home at the time.

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The Herald-News (Passaic, NJ), 18 May 1962, p. 21.

LYNDHURST – The retirements of Mrs. Katherine Rosenfelder, high school history teacher and Mrs. Ruby Bohrer, high school librarian, approved by the Board of Education at Monday’s meeting, will go into effect on June 30, 1963 and not June 30 of this year as stated in a news story Wednesday.

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Independent Tribune (Concord, NC) 28 Jan 1990, p. 12.

Mrs. Ruby Bohrer

PARAMUS, N.J. — Ruby Fay Lentz Bohrer, 86, of Paramus, N.J., died Saturday, Jan. 6, 1990, at Valley Nursing Home in Westwood, N.J. following a lengthy illness.

A funeral home in Paramus handled funeral arrangements.

Born Aug. 9, 1903, in Gold Hill, she was the daughter of the late J.R.D. and Elizabeth “Lizzy” Cress Lentz.

She attended Mont Amoena Seminary, Chapel Hill University, the University of Washington and Columbia University.

She taught in schools in New York and Lynhurst, N.J. In addition she was a librarian and a musician.

Her husband, Ira Bohrer, died in 1982.

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The Salisbury Post (Salisbury, NC), 3 Aug 1991, p. 3.

Catawba given $336,000

Catawba College has receibed a gift of over $336,000 from the estate of alumna Ruby Lentz Bohrer of Paramus, N. J.

Mrs. Bohrer, a 1927 graduate, was a high school librarian in Lyndhurst, N. J., for 33 years. She had done graduate work at George Washington an New York universities and the University of North Carolina.

She was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Paramus.

A native of Gold Hill, she served as secretary of her senior class at Catawba, chapel proctor and a Pioneer reporter. She was also a member of the Athenean Literary Society and the Rembrandt Club.

Her husband, Ira Bohrer, died in 1982.

“We greatly appreciate Mrs. Bohrer’s foresight and generosity,” Catawba President Stephen Wurster said. “She demonstrated a deep affection for her alma mater by including Catawba in her estate plan, and we are most grateful to her.”

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Ruby Lentz Bohrer was a co-author of The Ancestors and Descendants of Johann Nicholaus Heinrich Kress (Cress), 1978.