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Ruth (Miller) Sorrel

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Title

Ruth (Miller) Sorrel

Subject

Sorrel, Ruth Marie (Miller) Hough (1935-2016)

Description

Portrait of Ruth (Miller) Sorrel as a young woman.

Ruth grew up on Main Street in Woodstock, the only child of Harry Alton (1908-1996) and Sudie Pearl (Foster) (1912-1990) Miller. In the 1940 census, her father worked in a pool hall. Ten years later, he was a presser in a coat factory.

Ruth married Aubrey Harris Hough (born in Alabama) in 1957. She was a 22-year old Blue Bell employee and he was a 29-year old divorced telephone construction worker living in Edinburg. The marriage did not last.

She married for the second time in 1969. Bobby Eugene Sorrells (1934-1996) was the son of Wallace Murry and Blanche Louise (Cherrix) Sorrells, from Edinburg. This was his third marriage. Bobby had served in the U.S. Navy from 1952-1956 and worked for the Virginia State Highway Department.

The couple had more than a quarter century together before he died.

Creator

Morrison Studio

Source

Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society

Publisher

Shenandoah County Library

Date

Labelled "July 1949" on box of plates.

Contributor

Identified by Polly Hymer.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED

Relation

Ruth Miller Sorrell appears in Morrison Studio Collection images 001151 and 009694.

Identifier

009694

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Glass Negative

Citation

Morrison Studio, “Ruth (Miller) Sorrel,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed November 14, 2024, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/33063.

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