Oldest survivor of SF 1906 'quake dies

[oneh2obabe]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Ruth Newman was just a child living on an outlying ranch when the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 struck, but her memory of that day never faded, her daughter said.

"She would tell us she remembered my grandmother being upset because they had just milked the cow earlier and she had separated the cream and all and put it in containers that got thrown to the floor," said Newman's daughter Beverley Dobbs, 85, of Fair Oaks, California.

Newman was the oldest remaining survivor of the earthquake before her death earlier this summer. She was 113.

Newman was 5 years old when the quake struck, shaking her home on a Healdsburg, California, ranch about 70 miles north of San Francisco the early morning of April 18, 1906.

http://abc7news.com/news/oldest-survivo ... 13/966986/

There are only two known survivors of the 1906 earthquake that devastated San Francisco more than a century ago. Her death leaves only one known earthquake survivor still living. William Del Monte, 109, was 3-months-old when the earthquake hit.

[Hassel99]

You may want to fix the Subject line. The last survivor did not die.

[oneh2obabe]

Fixed ... was reading something else when I did it.