This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Browning Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nBB.2ACI/2901 Message Board Post: June 13, 2004 Journal News, Hamilton, Ohio Ruth Browning Hamilton woman active into her 90s HAMILTON — Ruth Browning enjoyed driving her friends to the store until she was 92 years old. “She’d say, ‘I have to take the old ladies to the store today’ and they were all 20 years younger than her,” said her great-granddaughter, Danette Sutten, whom Browning raised since the age of four. Browning, 95, of Hamilton, died Friday at her residence. She was born Sept. 4, 1908 in Hazard, Ky., to Jesse and Laura Penninton. She was one of 13 children. On April 2, 1943, she married William McKinley Browning in Hyden, Ky. He preceded her in death in 1973. Browning enjoyed quilting, gardening and cooking, Sutten said. “She made the best biscuits and gravy in the world,” she said. Browning is survived by her daughter, Betty Simpson of Hamilton; six grandchildren; and numerous great and great-great grandchildren. There were even some great-great-great grandchildren. Funeral services are 11 a.m. Monday at Brown Dawson Funeral Home, 330 Pershing Ave., Hamilton. Burial will follow at Rose Hill Burial Park. Visitation is 10 a.m. Monday at the funeral home.