Ruth "Ruthie" Rose Dalgleish Obituary (1927

Ruth Rose Tracy was born October 26, 1927, in San Bernardino, California, to Alma Elvida (Baker) Tracy and Alfonso Lebaron "Jack" Tracy. She grew up in the Southern California area, and at age 17 married the love of her life, Milton Dalgleish, in Loma Linda, California, July 15, 1945. After a year of Alaska homesteading, they returned to Southern California where the first two children were born. In 1954, the young family moved to Chehalis, WA, then to Ephrata, WA, in 1963. They returned to California in 1975 and Milton retired in 1988. The next 25 retirement years of full time RV traveling included visiting family in far flung parts of the US and volunteering with crews building Seventh-day Adventist churches all over California. Ruthie's last years were spent living summers in Oregon with daughter Margi and winters with daughter Laura in Loma. Ruthie & Milton were married 76 years and 124 days. Her life revolved around her husband, children, home and church. She was an avid knitter and an accomplished seamstress. She kept books for the family beekeeping business and worked alongside Milton in the bee yards and in the warehouse at extracting time. She baked delicious whole wheat bread by hand every week for 60 years and was a master at vegetarian cooking. She enjoyed sewing & leadership in her church charity organization and maintained a long & rewarding pen pal relationship with her "adopted brother", the late James E. Mills. Ruthie was a "people person" who never knew a stranger. Her sense of humor was legendary as was her storytelling. Ruthie went to sleep in Jesus on November 30, 2021, at the age of 94. She will be profoundly missed by her husband, Milton, of Gaston, Oregon, daughter Laura and son-in-law Jerry Nelson of Loma Linda, California, son Frederick of Gaston, daughter Margaret and son-in-law Gordon Roth of Gaston, foster daughter Sue Golchehreh and her husband Amir of San Ramon, California, 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.