RUTH OLIVIA FISHER LONG WAS BORN JULY 31, 1915 TO JOHN WILLIAM FISHER AND ETTA ANDERSON FISHER IN BALTIMORE.SHE AND HER FAMILY LIVED IN BROOKLYN, MARYLAND MOST OF THEIR LIVES.SHE WAS NEXT TO THE YOUNGEST CHILD OF THREE BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS.IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS, SHE IS PREDECEASED BY ALL 7 OF HER SIBLINGS, CLIFTON, JOHN AND ALBERT FISHER, AND BERTHA ELTON, ETTA SCHMIDT, AND ESTHER ROSSI.RUTH WAS MARRIED ON MARCH 20, 1937 TO RALPH EUGENE LONG, SR WHO SURVIVES HER ALONG WITH THEIR TWO SONS DR. WILBUR(BILL) LEE LONG WITH HIS WIFE CHRISTINE OF WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND AND RALPH EUGENE LONG, JR AND HIS WIFE KATHYE OF SEVERNA PARK, MARYLAND, AND TWO GRANDSONS THOMAS E. LONG OF WESTMINSTER, MARYLAND AND DAVID H. LONG AND HIS WIFE ROSEMARY OF PASADENA, MARYLAND.SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY HER FAITHFUL NEPHEW ROBERT EMINIZER AND HIS WIFE, BETTE; HER NIECES OLIVIA SCHRODETZKI AND HER HUSBAND FREDERICK; BEVERLY JOHNSON AND HER HUSBAND MARSHALL; AND LAURA AND HER HUSBAND JOHN, NUMEROUS GREAT AND GREAT Ð GREAT NIECES AND NEPHEWS ALSO SURVIVE HER.IN 1945, RALPH AND RUTH LEFT BROOKLYN, MARYLAND WITH THEIR YOUNG SON AND MOVED TO GAMBRILLS, MARYLAND WHERE THEY OPENED A GROCERY STORE AND EVENTUALLY A TELEVISION SALES AND SERVICE SHOP.THEY COMPLETELY REDID THE LARGE HOME ATTACHED TO THEIR STORE AND ENJOYED LIFE THERE UNTIL THEIR RETIREMENT IN 1985.AT THAT POINT THEY MOVED TO SEVERNA PARK, MARYLAND; AND IN 1997, THEY MOVED TO THEIR APARTMENT AT CHARLESTOWN IN CATONSVILLE, MARYLAND WHERE RALPH STILL RESIDES.DURING THEIR LIFE IN GAMBRILLS, MARYLAND RUTH AND RALPH WERE ACTIVE IN THE EASTERN STAR AND MASONS, THE GAMBRILLS ATHLETIC CLUB, THE INDIAN LANDING BOAT CLUB, AND THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN MILLERSVILLE, MARYLAND.ALONG WITH HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, KATHYE PETTEBONE LONG SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ANNE ARUNDEL CHAPTER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.SHE ALSO ENJOYED MEMBERSHIP IN THE LOCAL HOMEMAKERS CLUB AND WHILE LIVING AT CHARLESTOWN SHE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE POCKETBOOK SALES AT THE TREASURE SALES THERE.