Brewer, Ruby Birthday - Grady County OK

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The Chickasha Express-Star 12 February 2006

BREWER TO CELEBRATE 100TH BIRTHDAY SUNDAY

Not many people can boast of seeing 100 years in their lifetime, but on 
Feb. 7, 2006, long-time Rush Springs resident Ruby Brewer reached the 
century mark.

A come and go party will honor Ruby from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, as 
she celebrates her 100th birthday. The honoree requests no gifts, please.

As one might imagine, things can certainly change over the course of 100 
years. But to Mrs. Brewer, it does not take imagination. It takes memory.

She was there and witnessed change after change. During her lifetime, 
Oklahoma became a state. She has seen 18 presidents elected in the 100 
years of her life. President Theodore Roosevelt was in charge of the 
United States when she was born. She is testimony to the sheer 
determination of the American people, having lived through the Great 
Depression, the Dust Bowl, the polio epidemic, numerous wars and her own 
personal health problems these past few years.

Although Ruby never learned to drive, she was around when Henry Ford 
invented the Model-T.

She has watched fashions come and go and come again. She has seen 
television (black and white, now color) and now the personal computer 
replace the radio and newspaper as the primary sources of information in 
the home.

Without all of the modern conveniences available today, Ruby grew up 
learning how to take care of herself and her family. As she aged, new 
inventions for the home made her job much easier. The dishwasher, washing 
machine and dryer came along and helped her with her dishes and laundry. 
Ruby sometimes still insists that her laundry and dishes be done the old 
fashion way by hand.

With all the new ways to buy and preserve food, Ruby prefers the taste of 
the home grown and home preserved vegetables to store bought and canned 
vegetables.

At a young age, Ruby learned to garden and tended gardens most of her life 
never wasting any of the produce, preserving what her family did not eat.

Although things have changed substantially in the years since she was 
born, some things will never change. She received much joy and love with 
the births of her daughters, Wanda Johnson of Rush Springs, and Betty Jean 
Morgan of Oklahoma City. Ruby has many grandchildren, great grandchildren, 
and great great grandchildren. Ruby's love for her family and her concern 
for her neighbors will never change. Ruby likes to visit with her family 
and friends reminiscing about old times and reminding them of how things 
used to be.
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