By Robert D. McFadden Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded what became one of the world’s largest organizations of volunteers tutoring basic language skills to functionally illiterate peoples in ...

FILE - President George W. Bush, right, bestows the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ruth Johnson Colvin, from Syracuse, N.Y., during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington ...

Our dear Mom, Ruth Johnson, of West Hartford, passed away on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at the age of 98, one month short of age 99. She is now reunited with her beloved husband Harold who ...

Dr. Ruth Johnson is a representative of the 1st Congressional District on the University of Minnesota Board of Regents. She is an internal medicine staff physician at Mayo Clinic. The views ...

Ruth Jacobs Johnson, age 86, passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, on March 16th 2025. Born in Leon, WV, Ruth was the daughter of Floyd and Trullia Keefer Jacobs. She was lovingly ...

Ruth Johnson Colvin, the extraordinary woman who started a literacy organization in her basement that turned into the global movement called Literacy Volunteers of America, has died at 107.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded Literacy Volunteers of America, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame and received the nation’s highest civilian award ...

Ruth Bertha Johnson nee Klein, 98, of Elmhurst. Beloved wife of the late Robert W.; loving mother of the late Linda; devoted sister of Edward (Dorothy) Klein; cherished aunt of Donna (Terry ...