JackandRuby
10-18-2005, 12:36 AM
My name is Linda and I live near Laughlin Nevada in the desert. I am a huge animal lover since I was a child. We always had dogs and cats, mice etc. Now that I am older.....lol my husband and I have 5 Arabian horses that we breed and train, 5 dogs, ( 1 golden ret. 1 sheltie 1 brittany spaniel and 2 dachshunds. Now I am getting into the bird craze. I have 2 peached faced love birds that have laid 5 eggs now for me and I also have 2 diamond doves.
When I brought the lovebirds home I was thinking of what to name them. Trying to think of the perfect couple I decided to use the names of a couple my dad has been friends with over 40 years. I had been introduced to them and they were so in love with each other after all the years they had been married and treated each other with alot of respect. They became my friends also and I spent time at their house in Victorville calif. What a wonderful fairytale marriage they had. They do happen...Jack and Ruby McGeehee are proof. They met in oaklahoma when teens. They were from neighboring acres of land. Ruby told me she was looking outside her kitchen window and said" who the **** is riding my horse" :D Jack said he saw the horse up close to his property line so he jumped over and jumped on the horse. :wink: This was the begining of a love so rare. Jack entered the service during WWII and fought in all the battles including the battle of the bulge. He was injured by scrapmetal when he was jumping back into his foxhole. He still carries some in his back to this day. He has many metals and souvineers. One is a german pistol he took of a dead soldier....so much history there. After the war he returned and in 1946 Jack and Ruby were married. They had a child in 1948 a boy named Ronnie. He passed away a year later. Ruby was not able to bear anymore children. The years went by and Jack worked for the railroad during their marriage so they were well off. He bought her gifts all the time just for nothing. Stuffed animals, jewelry, antiques, what ever came to his mind. When I met them Ruby had been diaginosed with diabetes for some time and Jack had already had surgery on both his knnes. They were in their 70's. Ruby had to take alot of meds and Jack kept track on paper as to what she took and what time he gave it to her. Ruby was so bad that she could not sleep in a bed. She slept in a reclining chair.....and Jack did the same to be next to his Ruby. Ruby started to decline very quickly about 5 years ago. She was now in a wheel chair and suffered dementia. Some times she could not remember Jack and scream for someone to help her. Eventually she was put in hospice where Jack came every day all day. My parents and I knew Ruby did not have much time and we said that Jack would proably die shortly after Ruby from a broken heart. Finally one night 2 decembers ago the call came from my mom that Ruby passed away. Jack was crushed. For months after he would go to the gravesite with lots of pictures of her that he would sit up and he spent the days there. Then he decided to travel back to all the placed that they had been. It will be 3 decembers ago that he lost his Ruby but he is still alive and just had surgery on his shoulder. He is proably in his early 80's now. So as you see, when it came time to name my lovebirds, what other names could there be but Jack and Ruby. :)
When I brought the lovebirds home I was thinking of what to name them. Trying to think of the perfect couple I decided to use the names of a couple my dad has been friends with over 40 years. I had been introduced to them and they were so in love with each other after all the years they had been married and treated each other with alot of respect. They became my friends also and I spent time at their house in Victorville calif. What a wonderful fairytale marriage they had. They do happen...Jack and Ruby McGeehee are proof. They met in oaklahoma when teens. They were from neighboring acres of land. Ruby told me she was looking outside her kitchen window and said" who the **** is riding my horse" :D Jack said he saw the horse up close to his property line so he jumped over and jumped on the horse. :wink: This was the begining of a love so rare. Jack entered the service during WWII and fought in all the battles including the battle of the bulge. He was injured by scrapmetal when he was jumping back into his foxhole. He still carries some in his back to this day. He has many metals and souvineers. One is a german pistol he took of a dead soldier....so much history there. After the war he returned and in 1946 Jack and Ruby were married. They had a child in 1948 a boy named Ronnie. He passed away a year later. Ruby was not able to bear anymore children. The years went by and Jack worked for the railroad during their marriage so they were well off. He bought her gifts all the time just for nothing. Stuffed animals, jewelry, antiques, what ever came to his mind. When I met them Ruby had been diaginosed with diabetes for some time and Jack had already had surgery on both his knnes. They were in their 70's. Ruby had to take alot of meds and Jack kept track on paper as to what she took and what time he gave it to her. Ruby was so bad that she could not sleep in a bed. She slept in a reclining chair.....and Jack did the same to be next to his Ruby. Ruby started to decline very quickly about 5 years ago. She was now in a wheel chair and suffered dementia. Some times she could not remember Jack and scream for someone to help her. Eventually she was put in hospice where Jack came every day all day. My parents and I knew Ruby did not have much time and we said that Jack would proably die shortly after Ruby from a broken heart. Finally one night 2 decembers ago the call came from my mom that Ruby passed away. Jack was crushed. For months after he would go to the gravesite with lots of pictures of her that he would sit up and he spent the days there. Then he decided to travel back to all the placed that they had been. It will be 3 decembers ago that he lost his Ruby but he is still alive and just had surgery on his shoulder. He is proably in his early 80's now. So as you see, when it came time to name my lovebirds, what other names could there be but Jack and Ruby. :)