She had 2 sisters...

Ruth had two sisters, Gertrude and Dorothy. Gert was 2 yrs 3 mos, Dot nearly 5 years younger. Gertrude went to nursing school and worked the night shift as a nurse while raising a large family, while Dot went to St Joseph's college in West Hartford, had 2 children, and ended up doing testing for the Hartford Public Schools.

There were two other babies, a boy and a girl, but they didn't survive being newborns. William Edward Horan died at 2 days, while Teresa Horan died at 5 minutes of age. She was born 14 months after William, and 2 months early. Her mother had suffered a stroke 5 or 6 weeks before her birth, and spent the next year unable to get out of bed.

So the three little girls had to fend for themselves, with the help of their Aunt Mar. But that's a different story.