People named Ruth Vandine

Ruth Vandine was my mother. She grew up on a farm in southern Ohio in the 1920s and 30's and married my father in the middle of World War II. During the war she started out working in an ammunition plant, but they were offering employment to people with secretarial skills at a higher pay, so she tested for that and moved to the plant headquarters down the road about five miles...just a couple of weeks before an accident at the plant caused it to blow up and kill about 60 people. After a while, she took a Secretarial job in Washington D.C. working for the War Department and spent the rest of the war there. After the war, she continued to work up until my brother was born in 1957, when she became a full-time mom. She was the best mom ever -- never treated us as anything less than real people in our own right, and always worked hard to teach us common sense, honestly, and critical thinking -- something most schools don't or can't do, apparently. She and my father were married for 64 years. I love and miss her every single day, and not a day goes by that I don't think; "I wish I could tell mom about this!" Between her and my father, my brother and I had the very ideal of an American family home life, and my greatest regret is that too many people in this country never got to experience what that was really like. Rest in Peace, mom! You are loved and missed.

Ruth Geraldine Vandine of El Paso, El Paso County, TX was born on January 25, 1924, and died at age 82 years old on April 14, 2006. Ruth Vandine was buried at Ft. Bliss National Cemetery Section CC Site 215 P.o. Box 6342 - 5200 Fred Wilson Avenue, in El Paso.