Maria McIntire Ruiz is Remembered

Maria McIntire and Alfredo Ruiz
Married October 28, 1905
Photo courtesy: Sal Bigone

Maria (Mary Anne) McIntire Ruiz (1883-1952), daughter of Bartolo McIntire (1854-1924) and Concepcion Ramos (b1863-1913), is remembered fondly by her grand niece, Joanie Hamilton Zandona. 

She shares: 

"My mother was extremely close to Maria and loved her deeply. She was the oldest of the sisters and the matriarch of the family.  This is the story that my mother always told me. 

"Maria came to my mother's (Betty Jane Artiga Hamilton 1923-2013) house on 2214 Clay Street and told her that she had come to say goodbye because this would be the last time that they would see each other because she was going to die.  My mother remembered it as being very strange.  A week later, Maria died.  My mother took her death very hard.  

"The other strange story that my mother always used to tell me was that Maria's daughter, Mary Angela, was very beautiful and one day (I don't remember why) Mary Angela got angry at Maria, went to bed and never got out of the bed making Maria wait on her hand and foot until she died. The day Maria died, Mary Angela got out of her bed and, from that time forward, was no longer bed ridden.  Strange. My mother took me to Sir Francis Woods in SF to see where they lived.  I took pictures, which I still have."

Thank you Joanie for sharing the two stories about your great aunt, Maria McIntire Ruiz.

RUIZ - June 23, 1952, Mary Anne, beloved wife of the late Alfred Ruiz, dearly beloved mother of Mary Angela Ruiz, loving sister of Mrs. Frances Campos, Mrs. Mercedes Artiga and Mrs. Elena Morales, loving sister-in-law of Gustavo A. Ruiz.

Friends are invited to attend the funeral Wednesday, June 25, 1952, at 7:45 a.m. from Duggan's, 3434 17th Street, near Valencia; thence to St. Charles' Church where a Requiem High Mass will be offered at 8:15 a.m. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Recitation of the Rosary Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.

Source: San Francisco Examiner, June 24, 1952.