Got a call from
Ruth Switzer
's daughter-in-law up in N. Hampshire telling
me that Ruth passed away on Nov. 27th in a nursing home in
Massachusetts.
She would have been 93 in February.
I think she still holds some records. She was affectionately known as
the Duck.
She began swimming at her doctor's prompting when he discovered an
inoperable brain aneurysm (wrong spelling)
I think she was about 65 then--not sure. She had never competed before
nor even swam, except with her 3 kids.
Well, the aneurysm disappeared and she started setting some swim
records. She's been written up in our newspaper a while back. She was
quite a lady. She and I used to go to meets together.
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