(Nov. 16, 1918 – June 25, 2016) E. Ruth Blanchard died in Salem on June 25, 2016. She was 97.
Ruth was born to Roland and Erma Roberts in Long Beach, Calif., on Nov. 16, 1918. She attended schools in Long Beach and graduated from Bend High School in Oregon, where her family had moved when she was a teenager.
She was athletic, and a baseball and tennis player. She went on to graduate from…