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- Ruth Morris
- She was a broadcast journalist for Grand Junction, Colorado's KCTV Channel 8 during the 1970's.
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- Ruth Nading
- Born to Harry and Catherine Rosenbaum in 1912, the youngest of 7 children. Worked at a shipyard in California during WWII, where she met her husband, Spike Nading. (Source: Centennial Article "Ruth Nading")
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- Ruth Raney
- A special education teacher in East Middle School in Grand Junction, Colorado in the mid-Twentieth century.
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- Ruth Sadie (Kerstetter Learned) Morris
- Former Post Master of the Whitewater Post Office. She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado, between 5th and 6th Streets on Rood Avenue, to Vaughn Cook Kerstetter and Emma Louise (Murray) Kerstetter. Her father was a farmer and Spanish American War veteran. When he first moved to Grand Junction, he worked as a cook at the Pastime Café, where he met Emma. Her mother was a homemaker whose parents had come to Grand Junction after running a saloon in Cripple Creek during the gold rush. Ruth’s maternal grandfather, Gaylord Morris, ran a saloon in Grand Junction in the 1890’s. Her parents were apparently musicians, her mother attended a music conservatory as a young woman, and formed a band in Grand Junction. Ruth grew up on a homestead in Kannah Creek to which the family moved in 1913, when she was two years old. The family raised cattle and she grew up helping on the ranch. The city of Grand Junction gained an easement through their ranch for a water pipe to Grand Junction. She attended local schools. Ruth married Lawrence Learned in Glenwood Springs on October 10, 1929, when she was 18 years old. They lived in Kannah Creek, where they ranched, until 1940. They sold out of the ranching business and moved to Whitewater, where Lawrence was given the job of post master. During this time, she sometimes worked as a substitute mail carrier. By 1950, the US Census shows that Lawrence had become a carpenter and that Ruth had become the post master, a job she held for many years. He died in 1962. She remarried, to Everette Morris in 1963. He died in 1978. She died in Cortez at the age of 87 and is buried in Grand Junction’s Orchard Mesa Cemetery. She was a member in the Elks Ladies, the National Association of Postal Supervisors, and other organizations.