Celebrating 102 years of Life, Love and Laughter! Meet Ruth Gabay
Nancy in the handmade Chinese silk as homage to heritage.
As of September 2022,
Ruth Gabay has been
on this earth for 102 years.
Tell us about your roots, and life as a young girl.
I was born Ruth Dhue, and raised in countryside of Jamaica, the eldest of two daughters. My father was Chinese, from Hong Kong, and my mother from Jamaica. Life was a bit of a struggle early on. My father died while my mother was pregnant with me. Mom worked hard as a single mom, remarried and we uprooted a bit but the marriage failed and we then moved in with my maternal grandmother. She was a strong, fastidious...
