A birthday card campaign is on for Fairborn’s Ruby Wells Nicholson.
Her cousin Joberta E. Wells of Yosemite, Ky., posted a call for cards on Facebook.
Ruby is at The Summit at Park Hills assisted living facility in Fairborn.
Here is what Joberta wrote:
"HELP! My first cousin, Ruby Wells Nicholson (seen here when she was about 12 years old with her pony, Nancy), is going to be 105 years old on May 27. Last year so many of you were kind enough to send her a birthday card and I hope you will help me make her day special again this year. She is fragile physically but her mind is like a steel trap. She is just amazing! Thank you one and all!
Her address is:
Ruby Wells Nicholson
The Summit, Apartment 109
2270 Park Hills Drive
Fairborn, OH 45324"
At least 50 cards were collected for Ruby’s 104th birthday a year ago.
“They all came from people on Facebook and family,” Joberta said. “You never expect something like Facebook would get such a response.”
It would be awesome if she got 105 this year — one for each year of her life.
Ruby was featured on WYSO's StoryCorps in 2010.
Born in Yosemite on May 27, 1910, the retired teacher survived the Great Flu Epidemic as child.
She describes her childhood in church and life perspective on the WYSO show during a touching and funny interview conducted by her daughter Jane Scott.
“To my way of thinking, that leaf, and people, and animals all deteriorate and become dust to keep creation a’goin’ and I think creation is happening all the time,” Ruby said.
Really sweet stuff. So make sure you send her a card.
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