A longtime resident of Malibu and Pacific Palisades, Ruth Binder died of heart failure in early June in Yucca Valley, where she and her husband, Lowell, had lived for two years. She was 92. Ruth worked as an R.N. in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Stationed in the Aleutian Islands, she frequently flew to the South Pacific to pick up soldiers critically wounded in battle and operated on them in the air while the plane was en route to the hospital in San Francisco. She retired from service with a rank of commander. After World War II she continued her nursing career at, among other places, Santa Monica Hospital, where she was on the staff of surgeons along with fellow longtime Palisadian Roy Therriot, M.D. Ruth also acted as auxiliary to Lowell’s career as a successful real estate broker on Spring Street in Los Angeles. Ruth and Lowell moved to Malibu in 1948, where they lived until their home was burned in a fire in the early 1990s, after which they relocated to Marquez Place in the Palisades. Ruth was active in civil and social work, including the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club and Federated Past Presidents Club, Les Marraines for the Blind Children’s Center and Pacific Palisades Republican Women. Besides Lowell, Ruth is survived by a daughter, a son and grandchildren.
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