Selma, the devoted grandmother
For her part, Selma Ruby responded to the tragedy of her husband’s death by continuing to give love—especially to the grandchildren who would begin arriving within about a half decade of Walter’s death.
Walter, Dan, and Joanne Ruby remember Selma with great fondness, but they lived at a geographical distance from her in Pittsburgh and Chicago, and saw her only once a year or less.
Marsha and Robert Felenstein, who grew up in Rockville Centre, Long Island, had the good fortune to see ‘Grammy’ far more frequently, and she left an overwhelming impression on them still vivid a quarter century after her passing.
According to Marsha; “Grammy was simply the best human being I ever knew and a really dynamite grandmother. When it was my time to become a grandmother and I was asked what I wanted the baby to call me, I said, ‘Grammy,’ because in my mind nothing could be better than being known as a Grammy.
