Ruth was born and raised as a Southern Belle in Alabama.   She attended Auburn University, the University of Georgia, and the University of South Carolina where she studied Music Theory, Composition, and Performance. For fifty years she taught piano, voice, and drums to students from all over the world: China, India, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Canada, Brazil, and Wales.  In addition, she taught music at the Bethel Bible College in Kingston, Jamaica.  She has lived on Hilton Head Island for forty years and worked as a USPS Mail Carrier.  She serves as a member of the U. S. Ballroom Champions Team and is a Country Line Dancer, a former Mrs. Hilton Head, and as Sales Executive for the Mrs. South Carolina Pageant.  Ruth has served as a pianist across Beaufort County at various venues, events, and churches.  As Ruth would say: “May all your days be blest and keep a song in your heart.”