Ruby Duncan - Excerpt 2 Transcript
(Las Vegas, Nevada; September 13, 2001)

VC: Do you remember some of the things that you worked on together?

RD: We worked on welfare together, we worked on even some of the national women conferences that they were having, also the ERA, we worked together - I worked together with her. (Rduncan2) When Jean Ford went into the Legislature, she was a champion for poor women in the legislative halls and in the Legislature for us. Out of all the other things, she never did forget us, and we just depend on Jean for just a little bit of everything, because we know that she was a friend for us, (Rduncan2) and to be honest I - I'm sorry - I didn't know she had died until last year, when I went up to - to Reno with a group of senior citizens, and Maya Miller was one of the women, Maya Miller is one of the women also that was a leader with us. Oh, talking about Jean Ford, I mean, it really kind of touches me because she was such a great woman up until the last minute. I really didn't know Jean were ill and - because she never carried herself that way, she just constantly worked, and she kept working with me, and I remember she come - when I first got ill, she come out to see about me and she brought me a flower, a plant, and the plant just died, I would say, maybe two years ago, but Jean, she would write - she would help us write proposals, she would help us write letters, she would help - she just would help us put together all kinds of - of , I guess, whatever committees that we needed, because she was just that together, she just - she was just the woman had it together, and (laughing) she was just a great woman.