, of Aquasco, MD was welcomed home on February 25, 2017. Ruth comfortably passed surrounded by loving family members at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD. Ruth was born on November 23, 1921 in Lee County, VA to the late Alonzo Jayson Bowen and the late Mary Bowen Gray. She married Vernon Roy Young on June 25, 1941 in Sneedville, TN; and if truth be told, her Mom (Granny) insisted Ruth go back and secure an extra copy of a marriage license “to prove she had gotten married”. Ruth stood alongside Vernon and they shared their entire life together — mostly consisting of farming. They resided on the Schinmann Farm in Brandywine, MD early in their marriage. This farm was well-known as the “John Deere Equipment Farm”, where Vernon was involved in field testing of equipment. In late 1954, the family moved to the “John Sharper Florist Farming Operations” in Aquasco, MD; and Ruth remained there until her death (63 years later). She truly enjoyed the farming life. The Sharper Family were not just employers but became her extended family. Ruth (“Mom”) and Dad raised the family here. Ruth was a homemaker, who gave her three (3) kids the […]
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