My Favorite Recipes: December 12, 2019

Ruth was born in Montana as the sixth of 10 children and one of only three girls in the family. She has long been a resident of Whitman County. She was raised in Spokane through fifth grade, after which the family moved to Pullman where she graduated from high school before attending Washington State College.

Ruth in 1958 married her first husband with whom she had three daughters. They later divorced and she returned to school studying with a 38-hour credit load on top of working to support herself and her three girls.

While in school Ruth worked as a summer news editor for the Evergreen, and...