Ruth, around the time she married Ira
Ruth gets her own webpage because she always played a major role in our family's annual visits to West Virginia - it was she who put us up, and provided steady companionship during our two weeks of seeing kinfolk and relaxing.
Ruth Hunt, the eldest child of Georgia and Ernest Hunt, had a lifelong career as a schoolteacher. When Ernest died in a train accident in 1934, Ruth helped to support the family with her teacher earnings. Back in those days a schoolteacher was forced to retire as soon as she got married, so Ruth had to stay unmarried to continue supporting the family.
By the time she was in her forties, when such restrictions had been lifted, she married Ira Ice, a retired businessman and one-time mayor of Mannington, West Virgina. They lived happily for seven years until Ira's death from emphysema in the early 1970's.
Ruth, around the time she married Ira
Ira, around the time he married Ruth.
Ira owned a grocery store in the Mannington, WV area. He stands to the right
in this publicity postcard.
The caption reads "Ice's Super Market - East Main St., Mannington, W. VA.
- Free Parking".
Ruth never had children, but she did have Missy, her "baby."
Missy, Ruth and some cat.
There was always a cat somewhere, but there was only one Missy!
Ruth died in October, 2001.
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