1918
Ruth
2007
Ruth Ainsworth Robert
August 25, 1918 — June 17, 2007
Ruth Ainsworth Robert of Council Bluffs Iowa, and for the last 54 years of Westfield, NJ, passed away on Saturday, June 16, 2007.
Ruth was born on August 25, 1918 to Frank and Sarah Ainsworth, and progressed from spelling champion of the Washington Avenue Grade School to graduating from Rockford College, the University of Iowa and Columbia University Graduate School of Library Service. After a first position as a reference librarian in the Brooklyn Public Library, she became an economic researcher with Pan American Airways, just after it opened the oceans to air travel for the first time. She enjoyed this so thoroughly that she became a lifetime devotee of PAA and of aviation history, to the extent that the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has recorded her letters on history of aviation in the Flying Boat era. She later became an economic researcher for Time Magazine.
In 1953 Ruth married Roland Maurice Robert, and had a son, Frank, in 1954. In Westfield, Ruth was president of the Westfield Band Parents' Association, a director of the YWCA and was a member of the Westfield Historical Society, National Association of University Women, the Tri-Delta Alumnae Association, Gardinaires and a number of other groups. Her marraige lasted 49 years, until Roland passed away in 2002. She is survivied by her son, Frank of Washington D.C.
In lieu of flowers doantions may be made to the University of Iowa, where she has established a scholarship fund in the name of her father, Frank Ainsworth.
Ruth was born on August 25, 1918 to Frank and Sarah Ainsworth, and progressed from spelling champion of the Washington Avenue Grade School to graduating from Rockford College, the University of Iowa and Columbia University Graduate School of Library Service. After a first position as a reference librarian in the Brooklyn Public Library, she became an economic researcher with Pan American Airways, just after it opened the oceans to air travel for the first time. She enjoyed this so thoroughly that she became a lifetime devotee of PAA and of aviation history, to the extent that the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum has recorded her letters on history of aviation in the Flying Boat era. She later became an economic researcher for Time Magazine.
In 1953 Ruth married Roland Maurice Robert, and had a son, Frank, in 1954. In Westfield, Ruth was president of the Westfield Band Parents' Association, a director of the YWCA and was a member of the Westfield Historical Society, National Association of University Women, the Tri-Delta Alumnae Association, Gardinaires and a number of other groups. Her marraige lasted 49 years, until Roland passed away in 2002. She is survivied by her son, Frank of Washington D.C.
In lieu of flowers doantions may be made to the University of Iowa, where she has established a scholarship fund in the name of her father, Frank Ainsworth.
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