Ruby Booth (born Seely)
Personal
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: July 3, 1901
Date of Death: July 27, 1988
Birth Place: Portland, OR
Death Place: Portland, OR
Ruby S. Booth
Graveside service for Ruby Seely Booth, a Portland native, will be at 11 a.m. Friday in Lebanon I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Mrs. Booth, who was the granddaughter of an Oregon pioneer couple, died Wednesday. She was 87.
She was born July 3, 1901. Mrs. Booth was an organist who played in a number of Portland theaters during the silent film era of the 1920s and 1930s.
She married Joel C. Booth, a state senator from Linn County, in 1939. After her husband’s death in 1954, Mrs. Booth moved back to Portland, where she played organ for six years in Rose City Chapel.
Survivors include many cousins.
Published in The Oregonian, (Portland, Oregon), Friday, July 29, 1988, page 10E
[Great-great-granddaughter of SGS # 3052 – Ruby Adele; Lucius Alexander, Jira Joseph, Lucius Alexander; Bishop (#3052); Stephen Bishop (#1323); John; John S; Obadiah; Obadiah; Obadiah]
