Ruth Evelyn Rogers
Ruth Evelyn Rogers was born on 6 Jun 1898, in Union, Harding , Iowa
Ruth married Jay McCalment Lynch on 12 August 1924, in Grinnell, Powesheik , Iowa , USA
Jay McCalment Lynch
Jay McCalment Lynch was born on 22 Sep 1894, in Chariton, Lucas , Iowa
Ruth and her two sisters, Kathryn and Marie, all received degrees from college. This was a remarkable achievement for women at that time.
Ruth became the wife of Jay McCalment Lynch, who was a prominent doctor in Des Moines, Iowa. Since all the wives of prominent dentists were members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Ruth wanted to join that prestigious organization. To do this she did a tremendous amount of genealogy (family history) work. She put this information on brown sheets of butcher paper.
Eventually these brown sheets of butcher paper wound up in the hands of her grandson, Robin Roy Davis, when he was in his first year of college at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Robin had no idea what to do with the information on these brown sheets of butcher paper. Fortunately there was a genealogy class that was being taught at the Institute of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church). When Robin asked the instructor what to do with the information, the instructor said she would come over and help put the information on pedigree charts and family group sheets. This became the basis of a great amount of genealogy done by Robin Davis.
Ruth had a very sharp mind. She was an expert at a very sophisticated card game called bridge and she was very good at cross word puzzels.
Ruth eventually had alzheimers disease and spent the last part of her life in a rest home in Des Moines, Iowa.
Ruth died on 11 Feb 1990, in Des Moines, Iowa.
