Sacramento, California
Ruth Holland died of natural causes last week. Her nearly ninety-seven years finally caught up with her. She was the sixth of nine children born to a country doctor in a tiny, today even smaller, town in western Cannon county, Tennessee. At the age of four she moved with her family to the county...
Read MoreMrs. Holland's master's thesis has been invaluable to my research on Ruth Rippon and women in northern California ceramics. It feels only right to express my gratitude here since I can't do so directly.
Anonymous
February 20, 2025 | Other
Dear Holland Family,
The Schwartz family is honored to have known Ruth from the late 1940's, when Al Holland established the tax and probate department of one of Sacramento's premiere law firms. Ruth's rural Tennessee roots, keen intellect, intense, energetic embrace of aesthetics and culture, and her elegantly unadorned, natural wit made her utterly unique among our parents' friends and a delightful, favored presence in their social circle. I am personally enriched for knowing her and...
Damon Schwartz
June 19, 2017 | Sacramento, CA
