From the Eldest - Auntie Ruth

From "Auntie Ruth Interview 07/22/2025"

Jessica Halsey: "Do you know the names of the people that were involved in the car wreck and do you know around the time that it happened? I know she was 19, but do you have...a rough estimate of when it happened?"

Ruth Hines: "Actually, I don't. I wish I did. I don't know the names of anyone in the car accident except her brother. She and her brother was in the same car and his name was Walt."

Jessica Halsey: "Would you say that the car wreck had long-lasting consequences for her life as well as yours and her children?"

Auntie Ruth: "Definitely because everybody that knew her as we were growing up, they would tell us that she was not the same person that she was before the accident and the person that we knew as our mom...They did not expect her to survive and they had actually just laid her to the side, expecting her to pass away."

Auntie Ruth: "She did have a limp and it was because of the accident, the bone in her right leg was never set and so when it healed it was shorter than her left leg and for many, many years that leg, the wound would break out and flare up. And so, because she grew up farming and was a farmer's wife, she was unable to do a lot of things that was typical for the farm...Plus it left her very depressed."