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Ruth Jeannette Love
F, b. 26 October 1909, d. 26 February 1995
Parents
| Father | William Walter ("Bill") Love (b. 24 February 1874, d. 11 July 1949) |
| Mother | Myrtle Dot O'Ryan (b. 15 April 1886, d. 24 February 1963) |
Partner with Harold Brinton Allison (b. 1 August 1907, d. 4 April 1975)
Child with Milton Alfred Loomis (b. 31 August 1908, d. 27 August 1979)
| Son | Robert Milton Loomis |
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| Included in charts - lists | Descendants of Abraham Darnell b. ca 1743 Descendants of John Jacob Reinhart b. 1730 Descendants of John Love b. ca 1792 Descendants of Thomas Wisdom b. 1740 |
| Relationship | 1st cousin 2 times removed of Charles Ryland ("Ryland") Scott 1st cousin 4 times removed of Isaac Silas Vaughn 1st cousin 4 times removed of Katherine Gilstrap Scott 1st cousin 4 times removed of Joseph Ryland Scott 1st cousin 4 times removed of Charles Parker ("Parker") Scott 1st cousin 4 times removed of Orly Marie Vaughn 1st cousin 4 times removed of Avital Catherine Vaughn |
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Biography
| Anecdote | Ruth Jeanette Love was born October 26, 1909, in Neodesha, Wilson County, Kansas. She was the second child of William Walter Love (1874-1949) and Myrtle Dot O’Ryan (1885-1963). When Ruth was about 5 years old, her older sister Jessie died of diphtheria at the age of 7. That made Ruth the oldest daughter in a growing family that was to include younger siblings Doris, Helyn, Joe, Paul and Betty. Ruth in essence became the main family caregiver much of the time. Her father was frequently gone for months working as a laborer in the oil fields of Oklahoma and Texas, they moved frequently, and her mother was often ill. According to Ruth, her father would come home just long enough to impregnate her mother, and then would leave again. Ruth's mother Myrtle Dot was often bedridden as a result of frequent and difficult pregnancies, miscarriages, and depression. When Ruth's father was home, he drank heavily and was often abusive to his wife and children. Ruth felt that she was responsible for protecting her mother, whom she loved very much. In her first year of school, due to her father's insistence on moving every few months, Ruth attended three different schools. Ruth loved school and was an excellent student, but when her father was home he would sometimes force Ruth to stay home and wash the diapers of the younger children. One of Ruth's childhood memories was of begrudgingly hanging laundry on the backyard clothesline while listening to children laughing and playing at recess in the nearby school, wishing she were at school. A teacher at the school saw her and school authorities paid her father a visit to inform him that the law required her attendance at school. Another of Ruth's memories was that once she found her father's hidden whiskey bottle, poured out the whiskey and put vinegar in it. She said that when Bill drank from the bottle, he uttered every curse word he could think of. Ruth was not fond of her father. Ruth's mother Myrtle Dot and her grandmother Josephine Ingmire O'Ryan (1854-1949) firmly adhered to the faith of the Seventh-day Adventists, and Ruth and her siblings endured a somewhat guilt-ridden religious overlay to their early lives. As soon as the children grew up and moved out, they turned away from religion for a time as a result of what they considered a negative childhood experience. However, Betty and Doris later followed Christian Science beliefs for a time, and in her old age Doris turned to television evangelists. Soon after Ruth graduated from Neodesha (Kansas) High School in 1926, her father decided to move the family from Kansas to southern California, where he believed there would be better work opportunities. In the Los Angeles area, Ruth attended a Seventh-day Adventist nursing school. She received high grades, and had successfully completed her final exams, but just before graduation she was caught smoking a cigarette, a sin in the eyes of the church. She was expelled permanently from nursing school and her records expunged. So, although she was fully trained as an R.N. and was very capable, she worked as a nurse's aide rather than start her education over at another college. In the early 1930s, Ruth met Milton Alfred Loomis when he came to the Los Angeles hospital where she was working for treatment of an injury. Milton was handsome and charming and they soon fell in love. He and Ruth dated for several years. They were married first on October 22, 1937 in Idaho, and again on January 31, 1938 in the Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, Utah. They married in Utah because Milt's parents lived there at the time. Although neither Ruth nor Milton were particularly religious, Milt's mother Cleofas Garcia was Catholic, and to please her they married in the Catholic church. Milt and Ruth lived in Salt Lake for about two years. They had one child: Robert Milton Loomis, born in Salt Lake City on July 22, 1939 Soon after the birth of their son, Milt was laid off from his job. The following year, 1940, Ruth took Bobby and returned to the Los Angeles area, moving in with her sister Dorie. When Milt, a railroad engineer, lined up a job with Southern Pacific he re-joined them in Los Angeles and they got their own apartment. Ruth lived the majority of her adult life in southern California: Huntington Park, Bell, West Los Angeles, Bel Aire, Inglewood, Torrance and Hanford. Disagreements over finances plus Milton’s involvement with another woman led to a divorce about 1944. Milton married the other woman and moved to Alaska. He did not pay child support. Ruth had considerable bitterness towards men, based on her experience with her father, her husband Milton, and also her grandfather Edmund O'Ryan, apparently another neer-do-well whom her grandmother had divorced. It was not an easy life for Ruth as a single mother. She worked odd hours and on call as she struggled to make ends meet. Her pay was not high and she and her son Bobby lived for several years with Ruth's mother (Myrtle Dot O'Ryan Love) and grandmother (Josephine Ingmire O'Ryan). As there was not enough room for them in the small house, they slept in a one-room backyard shed with no bathroom and only one bare lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. Ruth and Bobby later moved to a new four-plex apartment next door, built following World War II, and then into a duplex built behind Grandma Love's house, built by Ruth's brother Paul. Rent there was $70 a month. Ruth's mother and sisters helped care for Bobby while Ruth was at work. Her son says that Ruth's love and support were the bulwarks of his childhood, although in young manhood, he rebelled against what he viewed as her obsession with housecleaning and moved to his own rented quarters. Bob recalls that when she was home cleaning house, Ruth always listened to music, either classical or country. In 1955, Ruth married again, to Dr. Harold Brinton Allison, an osteopath whom she met at the hospital where she worked. Dr. Allison was a kind, pleasant, and thoughtful gentleman, and the approximately 16 years she was married to Brint, as he was known, were the happiest of her life. For the first time, she was free of financial worries and was treated well by a man. When married to Dr. Allison, she worked in his office and kept the books. She was always an immaculate housekeeper who kept her home neat, orderly, and clean. In 1975, at the age of 67, Dr. Allison died of a sudden heart attack. The following year, Ruth left Torrance, where she and Brint had bought a condominium, and moved to Hanford, California to be near her favorite sister, Betty, and Betty's family. Betty said that she always looked upon Ruth as a mother as well as a sister, since she felt it was Ruth who had raised her. Another sister, Helyn, had also moved to Hanford. Although she was always slender, Ruth suffered from high blood pressure and high cholesterol. About the time of her move to Hanford, she began having small strokes, and gradually in her late 70s she began to sink into dementia. She remained physically able, but when her dementia became too disabling for her to live on her own, her son Bob moved her to a board and care facility in Concord near his residence. Additional strokes resulted in her not being able to swallow properly. She aspirated food, which led to the pneumonia that finally claimed her. She died on February 26, 1995 at the age of 85. Ruth had a wonderful, ironic sense of humor up until the last few months of her life. | |
| Person Source | Ruth Jeannette Love had person sources.1 | |
| Birth | 26 October 1909 | She was born on 26 October 1909 in Neodesha, Wilson Co., Kansas, USABGO. |
| Residence | 1910 | She lived Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter in Neodesha, Wilson, Kansas, USABGO, in 1910. |
| Residence | 1920 | She lived Relation to Head: Daughter; Residence Marital Status: Single in Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, USABGO, in 1920. |
| Residence | 1925 | She lived Marital Status: Single; Relationship: Daughter in Neodesha, Wilson, Kansas, USABGO, in 1925. |
| Residence | 1930 | She lived Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Daughter in San Antonio, Los Angeles, CaliforniaBG, in 1930. |
| Residence | 1935 | She lived in Salt Lake City, UtahBG, in 1935. |
| Marriage | 22 October 1937 | Milton Alfred Loomis and she were married on 22 October 1937 in Parker, Fremont County, IdahoBG.2 |
| Residence | 1 April 1940 | She lived Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Daughter in Compton, Los Angeles, California, USABGO, on 1 April 1940. |
| Marriage | about 1955 | Milton Alfred Loomis and she were married about 1955 in Orange, California, USABG.2 |
| Death | 26 February 1995 | She died on 26 February 1995 at age 85 in Concord, Contra Costa, CaliforniaBG. |
| Last Edited | 19 February 2019 |