If a family were a kitchen stove, the Ruehle clan of Novato had all burners going strong at the start of 2019.
Parents Kate and Glenn Ruehle, longtime Marin residents and active community members, had renewed their vows the prior year for their 25th wedding anniversary. Flourishing in their light-filled, stylish single home in the Hamilton neighborhood, they were busy in their work — he as a tech professional and she as an artist and photographer.
Their three children, Alyssa, now 21 and a student at UC Santa Cruz, and twins Kara and Warren, both 17 and seniors at Novato High School, were also busy and active — and seemingly healthy. The twins were on track to go to college and were checking off all the right boxes, it appeared. Even the family pets, Athena the cat and Rusty the dog, were thriving and playful.
“Warren’s senior project at Novato High School was training for and running the Marin County Half-Marathon,” Glenn Ruehle, 53, said. “He set up his Instagram account, and there was a due date sometime in January when you had to have 15 posts in the account. On that very date, he created that account and had 15 posts in there.”
A month later, however, on Feb. 8, Warren was dead. Without any warning — and without any obvious signals or triggers — he had taken his own life. An unimaginable shock, confusion and grief took over. The burners went out.
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