Ruthe L. Warren, nee Sherman was born in New York City, Queens,
January 9, 1931 of Lillian and Leon Sherman. Ruthe grew up in Manhattan.
As a teenager, Ruthe collected pictures of movie stars. To see some of her Idols
Click on Idols (only if you have high speed access).
Her father was a partner in the Kay-Sherman Luggage business at 46th
street and Fifth Avenue.
The Shermans spent summers at their country house in Woodstock, New York.
At a young age, Ruthe earned life-saving medals in swimming while attending summer camp,
where she was active in sports and theater. She attended Russell Sage College (BA) in Troy, NY
and Columbia University (MA). She was a vital member of the class of '52, where she organized the
"Sagettes."
Whenever a song was to be composed, a script written for a class play or the annual
Rally Day performance, Ruthe was an important and tireless participant. Her
creative talents were exceptional. She was a valued member of her class and is sincerely
missed by caring friends. After graduation Ruthe cared for her sick
father, and raised and exhibited standard poodles.
During Ruthe's lifetime, she studied
classical piano and was pretty good, but never followed it.
While home, she attended the Woodstock
Artists' School, where she painted purple cows and colorful clowns. She was a free-lance
reporter for the Ulster Townsman, Woodstock Times, and the Kingston Freeman.
She wrote the first articles about Clarence Schmidt and his "junk yard" museum on Ohayo
Mountain, Woodstock, and about Father Francis, a defrocked Cathlic Bishop who came to
Woodstock from Chicago and built the Old English Church on Overlook Mountain.
Her articles
in the local papers were reprinted in the New York Times and brought visitors from far away
countries, including Russa! More on Clarence Schmidt as an architech in Queens, NY who
twice created the "house of mirrors" around his home in Queens only to have it burned down.
His Woodstock "House of Glass" museum also burned down. Do a search on the Internet on
his NAME and be surprised at the number of references! See more on Ruthe's articles below.
Ruthe as 'Bloody Mary' sang in the Turno Opera Company at Woodstock's Birdcliffe Theater
and through out New England and wintered in Florida at the Ringling Brothers Sarasota
Theater. Later, she did social work in New York City and continued to study opera and
singing. Married, she had a talented daughter, Lily Nell, who she managed and who
performed as Clara in the Nutcracker at Lincoln Center, and in Saturday Night Live, Law
and Order, Love Sidney, Jeater Mason and The Magic Headset, etc. They also did a
Mother Daughter act together. Ruthe interviewed entertainers, composed music, wrote a
children's book, and produced a comedy which was performed off Broadway.
Ruthe was a very beautiful woman. Her family commissioned a large oil portrait painting of
her about the time she graduated from college. They also bought her a convertable. Ruthe and
her mother had five dog runs and raised some eleven standard
puddles - some white, some black.
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