Ruth attended Southwest Texas State U in San Marcos, moved to Johnson City to teach at LBJ H.S., met Ed, a petroleum engineer down from Tulsa, at art exhibit TBD at museum TBD.
Married soon thereafter, buy in Tulsa burbs, have a boy, Charles.
Charles and Ed die in a plane crash on the runway of a West Texas ranch, making a week of Charles’ 14th birthday, a mule deer hunt.
She goes to.Maine to mourn in a cabin in the woods. She begins to paint, oil on canvas.
