Ruth E. Kulin was born November 18, 1920 to Swedish immigrants, Otto and Ellen Kulin in Seattle, Washington. At 20 she married, John David Paris, a self-described juvenile delinquent who joined the marines as young as possible. The marriage didn't last very long, but it did move Ruth down to Oceanside, California and also gave her John David Paris, Jr.
Shortly after his return from Germany in World War 2, she met and married Ernie Frazee. This marriage lasted nearly a decade and firmly established David in San Diego's North County area.
After another short stint as a single mom, Ruth married Jere Branton for another decade, but eventually she returned to the Seattle area to be with her widowed mother and obtained a divorce.
A year after the divorce, she married Wendell Wold the day after his divorce from Frances Hern Wold had become final. Wold, a 50-year-old machinist, will be her husband until her death in Tacoma, January 24th, 2000. He dies just eight months later.
She is survived by her son, David Paris of San Marcos, his wife Catherine, and granddaughter Kelli.
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