Ruth Moorman

Born on Foote Avenue in Bellevue, Kentucky, Ruth moved with her family to Newport as a young child. In her later years, it was memories of her life there on Park Avenue that dominated her thoughts.

Ruth attended St. Stephen School before crossing the Licking River for high school at Notre Dame Academy in Covington.

After a year at the University of Cincinnati, she took a job in the Steno and Typing Pool at Proctor and Gamble, a company for which her father had worked for many years. She ultimately served as a Senior Assistant in the Marketing Department in the company's then-headquarters, located in the Gywnne Building at Sixth and Main.

She enjoyed her downtown years, shopping for snazzy clothes, dining, and dancing to big band sounds at the Netherland Plaza. In the Spring of 1945, as World War II was coming to an end, she married Arthur Moorman, who was serving in the Army Finance Corps. She retired from P & G with the birth of their first child in 1949.

Two years later, the Moormans moved to Lucerne Avenue in Ft. Mitchell. There she indulged a passion for gardening (inherited from her mother), sewed clothes, kept a spic-and-span house, a well-stocked refrigerator, and a balanced checkbook.

She was an active volunteer for various charities such as Good Council and Be Concerned and appreicated her time spent with several women's groups.

During Art's retirement, the couple enjoyed many trips with the Hilltopper's Senior Citizens. After Art's death, she could no longer live on her own and became a resident of the St. Charles Complex.

Ruth is survived by her two children; Christine Kreyling (Michael) of Nashville, Tennessee, and Thomas Moorman of Ft. Mitchell. She is remembered by them as being a loving wife and mother.

Memorials, in lieu of flowers, are suggested to the Humane Society of Northern Kentucky, P.O. Box 113, Florence KY 41022-0113.