Ruth Nuttle Ewing

Ruth Nuttle Ewing passed away on October 11, 2022, at Bayleigh Chase in Easton, MD, after a long journey with Alzheimer’s. She was 75 years old. Ruth was born on September 25, 1947, in Easton, MD, to the late Nina Lee Nuttle and Arthur Hopkins Nuttle. “Ruthie” as she was known in Caroline County, grew up on a farm in Denton and was a 1965 graduate of North Caroline High School. The third child of six, she often referred to herself as “number 3” and was also affectionately thought of as the “wild child.” She attended nursing school in Baltimore for a short time before joining C&P Telephone, where she met her husband, Paul. The “wild child” married her love in 1969, welcomed their baby boy Tyler in December of the same year, and three years later, their daughter, Pam. Ruth worked at Waverly Press before joining her husband Paul at the family business, Paul T. Ewing Inc., where she was affectionately known as the “boss lady.'' One look from her and you knew you had better pay your account! Ruth never stopped wanting to fulfill her desire to get a nursing certification. She finally had her rose ceremony when she graduated from the certified nursing assistant program at Chesapeake College in 2012. She was gentle, kind, and loyal, everything you could want in a mom, sister, wife, and friend. You could always count on Ruth being the first one to offer to help with anything, including cross country moves, going to three different stores to get you exactly what you wanted when you were sick, or staying up all night rocking crying babies. She loved babies (as most do) but she LOVED crying babies, fussy babies, strangers’ babies, and especially her own grandbabies to pieces. Couldn’t find her at a party? Look for the kids and babies, and that’s where she’d be. She was a lady with a lot of different sides. She loved getting “gussied up” in dresses just as much as she loved her leather chaps and motorcycle jacket for bike rides with her husband. She also loved to dance. No one was safe at a wedding. If she was there and wanted to get out there and dance, You WERE going to dance. She was always up for a trip to the beach with her sister, Dottie, or a Toby Keith concert. She loved family get-togethers with her siblings, where hours passed like minutes around the dining room table. She loved sweets and never met a lemon dessert that she didn’t like. Ruth was fortunate to have many special helpers through the years. Her first caretaker Amanda Hinnershitz, the staff at Bayleigh Chase, and later Talbot Hospice all gave her exceptional care, and the family is immensely grateful. She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Paul Ewing, Jr. and her son, Tyler Ewing. Ruth is survived by her daughter, Pam Andrews (Charlie); her grandchildren, Tucker, Avery, Kate Andrews and Kristen Kelley; her siblings Mary Lee James, Dottie (Bruce) Simmons, Linda Dondero, David (Deb) Nuttle, and Fred (Tamarah) Nuttle; her sisters-in-law Joan (Willey) Hurley, Dorothy (Mike) Walker, Patricia (Lewis) Bilbrough and Carol (Keith) Prettyman; and many nieces and nephews. We are comforted by the thought that she is Ruthie again, out riding on the back of a motorcycle with her husband, Paul, being bear hugged by her son Tyler, or shaking her stuff on the dance floor, but we will miss her something awful. A Celebration of Life service will be held at Fellows, Helfenbein & Newnam Funeral Home, 200 S. Harrison St. Easton on Saturday October 22, at 11:00 a.m. Burial will be private. Memorial donations are welcome in Ruth’s name to Talbot Hospice, 586 Cynwood Ave., Easton, MD 21601 www.talbothospice.org or the Alzheimer's Association at www.alz.org.

Ruth Nuttle Ewing

September 25, 1947 - October 11, 2022