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06/15/2007 |
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Ruth Moore Waterman
Celebrates 103rd Birthday at Bonham veterans home
photos by Allen Rich AUSTIN — In
1904, the United States began work on the Panama Canal, the first subway line
in New York City opened and Ruth Moore Waterman was born in Minco, Indian
Territory, Oklahoma. Waterman, now a
resident of the Clyde W. Cosper Texas State Veterans Home, is set to
celebrate her 103rd birthday at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 15. Waterman’s life
has spanned more than a century, and she’s still going strong, riding her
scooter throughout the Veterans home. A lifelong
resident of North Texas, Mrs. Waterman married Frank C. Waterman of Durant,
Oklahoma on Jan. 16, 1932. During World War II, Frank Waterman joined the
Army, where he served in a Signals Operation Battalion and fought in six
major battles. He died in the late 1970s. After her
husband’s death, Mrs. Waterman cared for her mother, Sallie Moore, in their
home in Bonham. Moore lived to be 105 years old. Waterman carried on, caring
for herself until September 2006, when the 102-year-old checked herself into
the Clyde W. Cosper Texas State Veterans Home. The Veterans
home in Bonham is one of seven across the state that provide top-quality care
for those who have served our nation. Each home provides skilled long-term
nursing care, comprehensive rehabilitation programs, special diets,
recreational activities, social services, a library, and a certified, secured
Alzheimer’s unit with its own secured outdoor courtyard.
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