My life has certainly taken a sad turn in the last week. When Carol Goss Rose called to tell me Ruth had passed away just a week and a day after Audra, it was more than I wanted to believe. While my family was very close to Audra, Ruth had been there from the very beginning of my Job's Daughters' life. I remember sitting in the choir across the room from her and being so impressed with what a kind lady she was. The first Job-A-Rama might have been during Audra's term, but it was Ruth's idea. Shortly after I met Ruth, she was involved in an accident which hurt her hand, but she still helped clip the Betty Crocker coupons during Audra's year, so that the GGC would be able to give more scholarships.
I was GB Representative to Oregon when she was Supreme Guardian and was able to visit while she was there. Ruth, told the GG of OR to give the GBHQ and I her bed, because she did not need a big bed all to herself.
While working on Ruth's Degree of Royal Purple application, I asked why she had never been HQ of Bethel #2. I was told there was a Daughter at that time who had just lost her father. Ruth felt this was something this other young lady needed in her life, so Ruth bypassed this honor.
I close with the thought that this loving, gracious, dedicated lady had now gone to the Great Bethel on High and will deeply missed by all who knew her.
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