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Ruth V. Davidson, WA7GXV SK Age 95

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  1. K2HAT

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    Ruth V. Davidson, WA7GXV SK

    Ruth Margarete Vogel Davidson (July 31, 1919 - June 24, 2015)


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    Sequim resident Ruth Margarete Vogel Davidson died June 24, 2015, at the age of 95.

    She was born July 31, 1919, near Felton, Delaware, to Carl Henry Vogel and Marta Clara Amelia Wuttke, and grew up in Buffalo, New York.

    After taking secretarial and bookkeeping courses in high school, she found it impossible during the Depression for a 15-year-old girl to get a job, so she returned to high school and completed necessary courses for college entrance.

    In 1940, she received her Bachelor of Science in Education from Buffalo State Teachers College, University of the State of New York.

    When the war broke out, she sought employment in Washington, D.C. She worked in various secretarial jobs, married Michael Maymond Kilian on August 20, 1941, and then worked in the Navy yard, machining periscope parts for submarines. This involved setting up and running various drill presses, lathes, milling machines, grinders, automatic screw machines, etc.

    When Mike applied for Officer Candidate School, the torpedo station where he worked refused to let him go on the grounds that his services were essential. Then, very shortly thereafter, they released him to be drafted into the Army as a private!

    Ruth became a camp follower, working at various military bases.

    At the end of the war, she followed her husband to Shanghai, China, where he worked with CNRRA (Chinese National Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), and she, as the only clerical employee with a "Q" clearance, was always in demand.

    When Chiang Kai-shek fled to Formosa, her unit followed him, and later continued to Hong Kong — still working at such assorted jobs as running a safe house, acting as a courier, radio announcing, teaching shorthand, weather reporting, etc. — while her husband was detained in Shanghai by the Communists.

    For several years after his release, she worked in the D.C. area for the CIA, and then in 1947, she joined her husband in Iskenderun, Turkey, where BuDocks was constructing a naval base. This was followed by years of work in France and Spain.

    In 1958, they returned to the United States, where Ruth joined the Census BureaU.

    After Mike's death in 1959 and burial in Arlington Cemetery, she moved to Las Vegas, where she bought and managed a 10-apartment complex with swimming pool.

    In 1960, she married David Matthew Lathers and, since neither had any children, they adopted two American Indian boys. A year later, they boys received their sister as a foster child.

    This marriage dissolved several years later, when David Lathers left for Florida to join a monastery. Ruth retained full custody of the children.

    In 1964, she married Harley Eugene Davidson. It was a happy marriage, blessed at age of 46 by the birth of a son, and they decided that Las Vegas was not an ideal locale for a growing family.

    So they traveled over Mexico, the central U.S., California, etc, as avid rock hounds and amateur radio operators.

    When they encountered the small town of Sekiu, that rang a bell! How could any amateur radio operator resist the call: "CQ, CQ — this is Sekiu calling CQ."

    After further exploration of the area, they settled in Sequim as the ideal place to raise a family. Accordingly, they packed up in Las Vegas and bought a place near Sequim and lived happily ever after. Well, not ever after but until his death in 1990.

    Ruth has been active since then with her friends, daughter and other family members, and the Sequim senior activity center.

    She was preceded in death by her brother, Ernest and sister Miriam.

    She is survived by her sons Rodney, Paul and Harley II; her foster daughter Valerie; five grandchildren and at least six great-grandchildren.

    Upon Ruth's wishes, there will be no services.

    It is requested that any memorial contributions may be sent to the Shipley Center (formerly the Sequim Senior Activity Center), 921 East Hammond Street, Sequim, WA 98362; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; or Peninsula Friends of Animals, P.O. Box 404, Sequim, WA 98382.
    Published in The Peninsula Daily News on July 7, 2015
    - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/pe...l-davidson&pid=175228668#sthash.2g4622F3.dpuf

    (License expired)
    Ruth V. Davidson, WA7GXV
    (No longer in FCC database)
    POB 427
    Carlsborg, WA 98324
    USA

    License Class: Advanced
    License Issue Date: Feb 10 1997
    License Expiration Date: Feb 10 2007
    Look up WA7GXV on the FCC website
    (This USA amateur radio license expired over 2 years ago.)

    Birth Date: Jul 31 1919

    73 K2HAT Lee Hatfield Jr
     
  2. KD5FOY

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    What an extraordinary woman and extraordinary life.

    WA7GXV RIP and 73

    de KD5FOY
     

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