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Birth name
Ruth Mae Hoover
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Place of Birth
Lexington, Holmes County, Mississippi, USA
When Ruthie Mae Hoover (affectionately known as “Muff”) was born in 1941 in Mississippi, her father, Walter, was 37, and her mother, Julia, was 31. She lived in Sunflower, Mississippi, in 1950. She has five brothers and four sisters.