Helen Woodford

Helen Woodford
10/17/1914 AD married

Ruth met Helen Woodford (1897–1929), by some accounts, in a coffee shop in Boston where she was a waitress, and they were married as teenagers at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Ellicott City.

They adopted a daughter, Dorothy (1921–1989), in 1921. In her book, My Dad, the Babe, Dorothy claimed that she was Ruth's biological child by a mistress named Juanita Jennings.[198] Juanita admitted to this fact to Dorothy and Julia Ruth Stevens, Dorothy's stepsister, in 1980, who was at the time already very ill.

Ruth and Helen separated around 1925, reportedly due to his repeated infidelities and neglect. They appeared in public as a couple for the last time during the 1926 World Series. Helen died in January 1929 at age 31 in a house fire in Watertown, Massachusetts, in a house owned by Edward Kinder, a dentist with whom she had been living as "Mrs. Kinder".

Ellicott City, MD

Lattitude: 39.268° N
Longitude: 76.7988° W
Region: North America

Modern Day United States

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