Sharing some of my personal knowledge of Ruth Bockelman that you won’t find Here.

• She was my Musical Mother.
• Ruth began teaching me at the age of 9 in 1975 (now you can figure out my age)
• She just turned 93 in February
• She taught my daughters how to play guitar and mandolin
• A personal friend of Mel Bay. He is an icon in writing music books for all kinds of instruments and a great Missourian.
• In my mid-teen years, she and I opened and closed a live radio program on our local station KDRO. I felt (and still feel) extremely priviledged that she asked me to do this. A huge honor for me personally.
• She never married or had children
• She has an excellent green thumb and has plants all over her living room
• She’ll always show up when invited to a party or family dinner.
• She wasn’t always a ‘teach at home’ instructor. She’s taught at Shaw Music and Ye Old Piano Shop and probably others I don’t know about.
• One of our favorite songs to Jam together was “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”. You know when your instrument is tuned (or not) while you are playing that song!!
• She is a Cancer Survivor

You could say that Ruth Bockelman is my hero!

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