Messenger, Ruth Perkins, 1899-2000
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1899 - 2000
Biography
Ruth E. Perkins was born on April 4, 1899 on a farm near Castana, Monona County, Iowa, to Henry Wills Perkins and Martha "Mattie" Rosetta Davis Perkins. Perkins graduated from high school in 1915. In 1917, she earned her teacher's certificate from the Iowa State Normal School in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Perkins taught for three years before marrying Franklin Lloyd Messenger on February 17, 1920. The couple had three sons, Donald (born 1922), Dale (born 1926), and Dwight (born 1935). Franklin Messenger died in 1959. Ruth Messenger died in 2000.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Ruth Perkins Messenger Papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: IWA0516
Abstract
Arrangement
Reflections on growing up and raising a family in rural Iowa.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
2000
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives