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.
Ruth Newman (R) celebrates her 100th birthday with older brother Barney Barnard and younger sister Genevieve Gully in Pebble Beach, Calif., in 2001. Courtesy of Philip Dodds via AP
