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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.


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