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July 1938 Parents moved to Sunderland, so she began boarding on Milverton Boulevard. | July 1938 Parents moved to Sunderland, so she began boarding on Milverton Boulevard. | ||
1931 Parents moved to Waverly Boulvard, to retire when father was 70. They inherited $7000 from the bachelor uncle of mother. Grandmother came to live with them. | 1931 Parents moved to Waverly Boulvard, to retire when father was 70. They inherited $7000 from the hermit (!) bachelor uncle of mother. Grandmother came to live with them. | ||
19 June 1941 she took her ATCM piano exam. | 19 June 1941 she took her ATCM piano exam. | ||
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July 1944 Bruce and Ruth purchase a house on Don Mills, move to a bungalow in Leeside, Don Mills, for 5 years. | July 1944 Bruce and Ruth purchase a house on Don Mills, move to a bungalow in Leeside, Don Mills, for 5 years. | ||
July 1949 | July 1949 Applebee Road in Islington (5 years) Hydro Job | ||
July 1954 Don Mills (Back to first company, Sangamo motor company) | July 1954 Don Mills, 7 years (Back to first company, Sangamo motor company) | ||
1960 Father dies. | 1960 Father dies. | ||
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1961 Guelph (1 year) | 1961 Guelph (1 year) | ||
1962 Toronto, tan valley (beautiful house!) | 1962 Toronto, tan valley ("beautiful house!" - Ruth) | ||
1963 Guelph | 1963 Guelph | ||
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* Mother died of gall bladder. | * Mother died of gall bladder. | ||
* Grandmother died after, of a broken heart | * Grandmother died after, of a broken heart | ||
==Later life== | ==Later life== | ||
Revision as of 15:16, 8 July 2018
Ruth Beatrice Newman (nee Coulter) (2 July 1917 - 20 October 2016) was an award-winning pianist, insurance claims adjuster, and longtime widower from Canada.
Early life
Ruth was born in Calgary, Alberta, on 2 July 1917 to Reverend Joseph Coulter and Williamina Bessie Coulter.
She received the Associate, Royal Conservatory Toronto (ARCT) teaching diploma in a ceremony in 1941. She received the prize for top marks that year.
Marriage and family
She married Bruce Newman in the 1940s and had three children by him:
Timeline
July 1923 Moved to Jasper Park
July 1927 Moved to Little Current, Manitoulin ISland
July 1931 Moved to Scarborough Junction
July 1933 Driver's License
21 June 1938 she took her Grade 10 Royal Conservatory piano exam.
July 1938 Parents moved to Sunderland, so she began boarding on Milverton Boulevard.
1931 Parents moved to Waverly Boulvard, to retire when father was 70. They inherited $7000 from the hermit (!) bachelor uncle of mother. Grandmother came to live with them.
19 June 1941 she took her ATCM piano exam.
21 October 1941 she convocated and won a prize.
17 March 1942 The St. Patrick's Day Dance. She played piano. She met Bruce.
June 1942 She was engaged to be married
10 October 1942 Married Bruce Newman.
October 1942 Flat on Berard Street East
July 1944 Bruce and Ruth purchase a house on Don Mills, move to a bungalow in Leeside, Don Mills, for 5 years.
July 1949 Applebee Road in Islington (5 years) Hydro Job
July 1954 Don Mills, 7 years (Back to first company, Sangamo motor company)
1960 Father dies.
1961 Guelph (1 year)
1962 Toronto, tan valley ("beautiful house!" - Ruth)
1963 Guelph
27 June 1968 Husband Bruce dies
July 1968 Move into apartment, second floor, 18 The Donway East, Don Mills, Ontario.
1982 Visits Thunder Bay to help her daughter Mary Ann raise her son, infant Michael Currie
2003 January to April, September to December - lets her grandson Michael Currie live with her in the second bedroom.
Undated:
- Mother died of gall bladder.
- Grandmother died after, of a broken heart
Later life
From July 1968 to March 2010, she lived on her own in a rented apartment at 18 The Donway East, in Don Mills, Ontario. Her phone number for those years was 416 444 6583.
Having moved over a dozen times in her life, perhaps she was tired of decamping on a regular basis, and so she chose to remain in place for a long time.
On 1 July 2007 she celebrated her 90th birthday at her daughter Sandra's home in Speyside, Ontario, between 13:00 and 17:00. The invitation letter to the family, from granddaughter Megan Kenzie, read in part:
The 90th Birthday of Everyone’s Favourite Relative:
Our lady of Don Mills, The Former High Jump Champion of Manitoulin Island, Piano Player Extraordinaire, Mother of the Newman Girls, Grandma, Great-Grandma, sister, sister-in-law, aunt…whatever…
Ruth Newman !
— Megan Kenzie, July 2007
In 2010, a series of strokes forced her to be moved out of her longtime residence in Don Mills.
She initially moved to Greenview Lodge, 880 Lawrence Avenue East, just up the street from her apartment.
The mothers have gone through everything from Grandma's apartment. Some stuff has gone with her. Special/valuable/nostalgic/useful items have been distributed between the mothers. Attached are a few photos of some of the things that are left. See following email for second set of pics. We are trying to clear most things out of the apartment this week, and the rest by mid-April. Let me know if you want anything you see here, and we will keep it.
— Email, Megan Kenzie, 21 March 2010
Death
She died 20 October 2016.
Sources
Self
Timeline was described to her grandson Michael Currie personally in 2003.