Pat rushed to pick it up, hoping it might be either his mother or his sister Ruth.
His sister Ruth was born in 1927.
"Only one woman can make pies as well as my own wife," Father had said, "and that is her sister Ruth."
Joan and her sister Ruth appeared early in the saga, and young Paul opened the very first book of the series.
When her sister Ruth joins them in Nevada, her husband decides to leave.
By the early 1940s, the three brothers were working as a team, with the help of their sister Ruth who served as their secretary.
The trio grew to a quartet when sister Ruth joined in December 1972.
Her sister Ruth consequently did not attend the premiere and never saw the play.
Deepest sympathy to Ann, the children and his sister Ruth.
After a few single releases, sister Ruth joined the group in 1972, making it a quartet.