Ruth Mougey Worrell

Ruth Mougey Worrell, born in Portsmouth, Ohio in 1882, was the daughter of a Methodist minister who was a pioneer in civil rights. She attended Kings School of Oratory in Pittsburgh and taught public speaking at Ohio University. She received an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters from Western College and produced religious and patriotic pageants throughout the United States between 1910 and the early 1930's. Widowed in 1927, she moved her family to Upper Arlington in 1936. She organized the State of Ohio Council of Church Women and the National United Council of Church Women, and when she retired in 1949 every state had a United Council of Church Women. She also helped organize the first Upper Arlington garden club and Fourth of July parade. In 1964 she was honored as Ohio Mother of the Year, and her three daughters were Florence Worrell, Anne Gaynor, and Charlotte Lemon.

Upper Arlington, Ohio · United States