Facing Cancer
On June 8, 2016, a former colleague announced on the floor of the state House that Ruth had been diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer. That day, she told a newspaper reporter: “My husband Ken said, ‘You know, your 1,000-year and million-year plans have not changed. It’s just the next few years that will change’...
“God’s got me in his hands, regardless of how this turns out.”
Throughout the next seven months she fought cancer -- as well as the anger and bitterness that could have come with it -- wearing the Full Armor of God.
How did a 57-year-old wife, mother and grandmother -- full of life, talent and promise -- face death with such grace?
