Family and friends are remembering
Ruth DeGabriele, whose 100th birthday was noted here last year. Here’s the remembrance they’re sharing now:
Ruth DeGabriele
June 13, 1920 – February 21, 2021
Ruth was born on a farm near Frankfort, Kansas, on June 13th, 1920. She grew up in a family of two sisters and 4 brothers. She was 17 years old when the “Dust Bowl” hit the plains and forced the family to sell the farm. They loaded up their truck with all of their belongings and headed west, first to California, where they worked the fields picking beets, cherries, and hops, and then apricots in Oregon, where they eventually settled.