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Emily Duncan
January 5, 2015
To Sister Cameron's Family: She was definitely an influence on all the OES chapters she visited in her Grand Chapter appointments and elected positions. I was one of her angels in her Worthy Grand Matron program at Grand Chapter in 1969 - she wrote the program and I do remember one of the songs was "When I have Gone the Last Mile of the Way". We join all her friends to say a last farewell to Sister Ruth here on earth. Emily Duncan, Secretary, Sunrise OES 364, Petros, TN.
Darrell Hathcock
January 2, 2015
Wawanna and family:
Please know that you are being lifted in prayer so that during this season of grieving you might find God's grace each day.
Loretta & John Clark
January 2, 2015
Ruth was my Mentor in the OES....she was my instructor in my early years...always appreciated her teachings as she was an excellent teacher....so dedicated. I will always have the very best memories of her. She will be greatly missed.
January 2, 2015
May God Bless this daughter. Everyone loved Ruth Cameron.
Nita Privette
January 2, 2015
A tribute to a Beautiful Mind
Whether it was the flourish of her fountain pen as she wrote her annual Christmas letter or the embellishment on her formal gown that she added just before walking out the door to an Eastern Star meeting, Ruth Cameron was a lady of distinction and elegance. I remember once that I told her that I thought simple decorations were pretty, her responses was, 'Yes but elegant is prettier.' There just was no half-way in her vocabulary. I don't believe I ever knew anyone who could do, think or talk about so many things at one time. She was a whirlwind of confidence, expertise, creativity and common sense.
I will always remember the night she adopted me. I was in my late 20's and I was pressing through with the responsibilities of an office I held in the Eastern Star even though I was extremely sick with a sinus and ear infection and could barely speak. She told me that night that if she had had another daughter she would want her to be just like me. I was overwhelmed. I had not done anything but fulfill an obligation but that was something she highly valued. From that day on we saw each other as family.
It was fun to call her on the phone because I didn't have to say anything after the initial question was asked. I could just sit and listen to that brilliant mind crackle with electricity as she fired off her answer in well ordered detail. Whether it was a recipe for making plum jelly, the ritual of the OES, the American Revolution, or making a dress, she was an expert...really, an expert. I can still visualize that dress form at her house. She made and re-made most of her formal gowns that she wore to special meetings by taking this from that and adding a little of another.
The very last time I spent time with her was at her home in Powell about 13 years ago. She was in town for a few months from her home in Florida and she invited me to lunch. I was seriously overweight at the time. She was telling me in great detail how she had re-decorated and furnished her home in Powell with Thrift store finds. Deeply embedded in her telling of taking a bedsheet to make the covers for the throw pillows were these random words 'and we just have to do something about your weight' and then she went on to the lamp shades. Remember, I was in the middle of a tornado of words and moving hands as she told me about her house and did not even realize what she had said about my weight until I got home. It was like I had been hypnotized. The next day I started Weight Watchers and lost 100 lbs. Let me add 'woman of influence' to my description of this grand lady.
I remember when she was sitting with her mother in the hospital many years ago. Her mom was in her 90s and suffering from some kind of serious food poisoning. Ruth didn't sit watching TV or read, she sewed on what she called her stress quilt. She did the same when her husband Alvin was sick. Her hands and mind were never idle.
When I didn't get her long, written in her beautiful hand with red ink Christmas letter from Florida a few years ago, I called to tell her how much I missed it. She said, 'Honey, I didn't write one this year but I will send you one.' It came in the mail a few days later signed Your Other Mom, Ruth with her poinsettia flower drawn beside her name. That was the last time I heard from her. I tried calling to no avail. I learned later that she was with her daughter and then in a rest home.
My life has been touched by many people in many ways along this journey. We are wise to learn from those that God sends our way. From my Mama Ruth, I learned to keep busy, stay active, to care about causes that matter, and to be tenacious when I know I am right plus a little sewing, cooking, gardening, genealogy, and DIY decorating.
Hers was a beautiful mind and I loved her very much
Nita Privette
January 2, 2015
My tribute to a Beautiful Mind.
Whether it was the flourish of her fountain pen as she wrote her annual Christmas letter or the embellishment on her formal gown that she added just before walking out the door to an Eastern Star meeting, Ruth Cameron was a lady of distinction and elegance. I remember once that I told her that I thought simple decorations were pretty, her responses was, 'Yes but elegant is prettier.' There was just was no half-way in her vocabulary. I don't believe I ever knew anyone who could do, think or talk about so many things at one time. She was a whirlwind of confidence, expertise, creativity and common sense.
I will always remember the night she adopted me. I was in my late 20's and I was pressing through with the responsibilities of an office I held in the Eastern Star even though I was extremely sick with a sinus and ear infection and could barely speak. She told me that night that if she had had another daughter she would want her to be just like me. I was overwhelmed. I had not done anything but fulfill an obligation but that was something she highly valued. From that day on we saw each other as family.
It was fun to call her on the phone because I didn't have to say anything after the initial question was asked. I could just sit and listen to that brilliant mind crackle with electricity as she fired off her answer in well ordered detail. Whether it was a recipe for making plum jelly, the ritual of the OES, the American Revolution, or making a dress, she was an expert...really, an expert. I can still visualize that dress form at her house. She made and re-made most of her formal gowns that she wore to special meetings by taking this from that and adding a little of another.
The very last time I spent time with her was at her home in Powell about 13 years ago. She was in town for a few months from her home in Florida and she invited me to lunch. I was seriously overweight at the time. She was telling me in great detail how she had re-decorated and furnished her home in Powell with Thrift store finds. Deeply embedded in her telling of taking a bedsheet to make the covers for the throw pillows were these random words 'and we just have to do something about your weight' and then she went on to the lamp shades. Remember, I was in the middle of a tornado of words and moving hands as she told me about her house and did not even realize what she had said about my weight until I got home. It was like I had been hypnotized. The next day I started Weight Watchers and lost 100 lbs. Let me add 'woman of influence' to my description of this grand lady.
I remember when she was sitting with her mother in the hospital many years ago. Her mom was in her 90s I think and suffering from some kind of serious food poisoning. Ruth didn't sit watching TV or read, she sewed on what she called her stress quilt. She did the same when her husband Alvin was sick. Her hands and mind were never idle.
When I didn't get her long, written in her beautiful hand with red ink Christmas letter from Florida a few years ago, I called to tell her how much I missed it. She said, 'Honey, I didn't write one this year but I will send you one.' It came in the mail a few days later signed Your Other Mom, Ruth with her poinsettia flower drawn beside her name. That was the last time I heard from her. I tried calling to no avail. I learned later that she was with Wawanna and then in a rest home.
My life has been touched by many people in many ways along this journey. We are wise to learn from those that God sends our way. From my Mama Ruth, I learned to keep busy, stay active, to care about causes that matter, and to be tenacious when I know I am right plus a little sewing, cooking, gardening, genealogy, and DIY decorating.
Hers was a beautiful mind. I loved her so much and shall never forget her.
Nita Privette
Brenda Reagan
January 2, 2015
Sincerest sympathy to the Widoff family in the loss of Ruth. Her work on Reagan genalogy was also a great asset. Ruth will be sadly missed at the Reagan Reunions at Dupont, TN. To Ruth's immediate family, you are in our thoughts and prayers.
Dorothy Needles
December 27, 2014
My sincere condolences to the Widoff Family on the loss of their mother , grandmother. Ruth Cameron obviously leaves behind a wonderful legacy and must have been an inspiration to all who knew her. May she rest in peace.
Mabel & Jack Johnson
December 27, 2014
Wawanna, Ruth was loved by everyone she knew in Knoxville, and especially at Bearden OES. She was always an inspiration to me, as well as all new members. Jack and I visited her twice there in FL, and we saw you on one of those visits.
December 26, 2014
We love Ruth! She was a very devoted member and WGM of the order of TN! Will pray for Wawanna. When you lose your Mother, you lose your best friend!
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