Oldest survivor of San Francisco earthquake of 1906 dies
Source: AP
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Ruth Newman was just a child living on an outlying ranch when the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 struck, but her memory of that day never faded, her daughter said.
"She would tell us she remembered my grandmother being upset because they had just milked the cow earlier and she had separated the cream and all and put it in containers that got thrown to the floor," said Newman's daughter Beverley Dodds, 85, of Fair Oaks, California.
Newman was the oldest remaining survivor of the earthquake before her death earlier this summer. She was 113.
Newman was 4-years-old when the quake struck, shaking her home on a Healdsburg, California, ranch about 70 miles north of San Francisco the early morning of April 18, 1906.
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In this Sept. 23, 2001, photo provided by Phil Dobbs, Ruth Newman, right, celebrates her 100th birthday with her older brother Barney Barnard and younger sister Genevieve Gully in Pebble Beach, Calif. Newman, who was thought to be one of two remaining survivors of the massive 1906 San Francisco earthquake, died in July 2015, at the age of 113. (Courtesy of Philip Dodds via AP)
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