When Ruth Geraldine Gannon was born on 13 May 1917, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, her father, Gerald Wilkerson Gannon, was 28 and her mother, Hazel Elizabeth Bryant, was 20. She married Harold Wesley Smith on 4 March 1937, in Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States. She lived in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, United States in 1935 and Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died in August 1984, at the age of 67.
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