Ruby Beich, Long time Crookston resident, 94, passed away July 21, 2023 from natural causes. She was born on May 19, 1929, the daughter of August and Cora (Shurson) Swenson, in a farmhouse 12 miles northwest of Karlstad, MN. Ruby grew up on a small farm with no indoor plumbing or electricity and during the Great Depression. She graduated from Karlstad High School in 1947 and attended Aakers Business College in Grand Forks, ND. She then worked in the Stenographic Bureau at UND for four years.