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RUTH SAUNDERS
A
loyal and diligent church worker and member of the First Presbyterian Church of
Alhambra for thirty years, Ruth Saunders has taught three generations in Sunday
school, presently holds the title of Minister of Outreach and Evangelism, and
is acting in the Alhambra Church Council.
Mrs. Saunders is a past president of the Ladies Aid Society, was for ten
years Church school superintendent, and is a former staff member in charge of
children’s work for six years. She was
also superintendent and a teacher of week day
religious education, is a past chairman, for four years, of the Interfaith
Committee, and is president of the Women’s Evening Guild. Mrs. Saunders started the Mothers’ Breakfast
Club in the early 1930’s; she and her husband founded the Co-Wed class, which
is now one of the leading classes of the church. Mrs. Saunders is employed part-time by the
First Presbyterian Church of Alhambra.
The
daughter of Walter Edward and Etta (Meadway) Everitt, both from England, Mrs. Saunders was born on
February 22, 1901, in Buffalo, New York.
She received her elementary education in Seattle, Washington, graduated
from Broadway High School in Seattle, and graduated from Tennant College, a
Presbyterian college in Philadelphia, in 1925.
Before her marriage, she was director of girls’ activities in a
community center in Tacoma, Washington.
During World War II Mrs. Saunders did practical nursing.
In
Los Angeles, on August 9, 1927, the former Ruth Everitt
was married to Walton Saunders, a native of Sedalia, Missouri, who was educated
in Sedalia and Seattle, and studied for two years at the University of
Washington. He retired after thirty-one
years with the Los Angeles Post Office, and is presently employed at the
Security First National Bank in Los Angeles.
Mr. Saunders is also active in church work, and in the past has been
deacon, elder, and trustee, being a current member of the Men’s Club.
Mr.
and Mrs. Saunders have a daughter, Mrs. Frank (Carol Marthetta)
Watts, a graduate of Mark Keppel High School and East Los Angeles Junior
College. She lives in Lakewood with her
husband and their two children, Bonnie Ruth and Kathy Lee.
Mrs.
Saunders makes a hobby of photography and colored slides, and belongs to the
Hue and Shadow Camera Club in San Gabriel, where she has won several top awards
for landscape pictures. She has
developed many programs using slides with appropriate poems and scriptures to
present to church and club groups.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source:
Historical Volume & Reference Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park,
Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple City, by Robert P. Studer,
Page 558, Historical Publ., Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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