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Ruth Pearson
March 9, 1925 — October 25, 2009
Ruth Pearson, age 84, of New York City, died Sunday morning, October 25, at the Jack D. Weiler Hospital in New York City, NY.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, November 21, at Oak Hill Cemetery in New London. There is no reviewal or visitation. Arrangements are with Peterson Brothers Funeral Home.
Ruth Pearson was born on March 9, 1925, in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Emil and Leona Nordhaus. She graduated from El Paso High School and studied at San Antonio College and the University of California, Los Angeles. She wrote fashion copy for a Los Angeles department store. For a predecessor of the San Antonio daily newspaper, Express-News, she wrote "Around the Plaza", a column about local activities. From 1954-56, Ruth traveled extensively in Mexico as travel editor for The News, an English language daily in Mexico City. She married John Pearson in Mexico and in 1956, they moved to Caracas, where Ruth reported on the overthrow of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez for the Caracas Daily Journal and Copley News Service.
For more than three decades, Ruth served as correspondent at the United Nations for publications of the McGraw-Hill Companies. Subsequently, as a correspondent in New York at the U.N., Ruth reported and interpreted developments from cold war crises to globalization - among them, the years-long U.N. negotiation of the Law of the Sea, which created the framework for navigation and resource use over two-thirds of the earth's surface. She also wrote annual articles on the U.N. for the yearbook of Encylopedia Americana as well as free-lance articles for other publications.
She is survived by her husband, John Pearson of New York City, NY.; one daughter, Pamela Pearson of New York City and four nieces
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, November 21, at Oak Hill Cemetery in New London. There is no reviewal or visitation. Arrangements are with Peterson Brothers Funeral Home.
Ruth Pearson was born on March 9, 1925, in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of Emil and Leona Nordhaus. She graduated from El Paso High School and studied at San Antonio College and the University of California, Los Angeles. She wrote fashion copy for a Los Angeles department store. For a predecessor of the San Antonio daily newspaper, Express-News, she wrote "Around the Plaza", a column about local activities. From 1954-56, Ruth traveled extensively in Mexico as travel editor for The News, an English language daily in Mexico City. She married John Pearson in Mexico and in 1956, they moved to Caracas, where Ruth reported on the overthrow of Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez for the Caracas Daily Journal and Copley News Service.
For more than three decades, Ruth served as correspondent at the United Nations for publications of the McGraw-Hill Companies. Subsequently, as a correspondent in New York at the U.N., Ruth reported and interpreted developments from cold war crises to globalization - among them, the years-long U.N. negotiation of the Law of the Sea, which created the framework for navigation and resource use over two-thirds of the earth's surface. She also wrote annual articles on the U.N. for the yearbook of Encylopedia Americana as well as free-lance articles for other publications.
She is survived by her husband, John Pearson of New York City, NY.; one daughter, Pamela Pearson of New York City and four nieces
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