{"id":3129944,"date":"2020-09-01T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/ruth-estelle-taber-gates\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T15:54:29","slug":"ruth-estelle-taber-gates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/ruth-estelle-taber-gates\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Estelle Taber Gates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gates<\/strong>\u2014<em>Ruth Estelle Taber Gates<\/em>, de 91 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 23 de julio de 2019, en paz, en East Providence, R.I., pocas semanas despu\u00e9s de celebrar con alegr\u00eda con su extensa familia su pr\u00f3ximo nonag\u00e9simo segundo cumplea\u00f1os. Ruth naci\u00f3 el 27 de julio de 1927 en Greenfield, Mass. Se gradu\u00f3 en Northfield School, donde disfrut\u00f3 del voleibol, el baloncesto y el canto coral. Con una licenciatura en enfermer\u00eda del Simmons College, comenz\u00f3 su primer trabajo como enfermera visitante en Worcester, Mass. Conoci\u00f3 a Don Gates en un grupo de j\u00f3venes de una iglesia no cu\u00e1quera en 1952 y se cas\u00f3 con \u00e9l despu\u00e9s de un breve noviazgo, justo antes de que lo llamaran al servicio militar. M\u00e1s tarde se unieron a Worcester Meeting, traslad\u00e1ndose a Providence Meeting cuando se mudaron a Rhode Island en 1960.     <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Se tom\u00f3 un descanso de la enfermer\u00eda mientras criaba a sus cuatro hijos, volcando su energ\u00eda en su familia. Sus hijos siempre pod\u00edan encontrarla en la cocina, donde la ayudaban a hornear pasteles de cerezas o a enlatar compota de manzana y tomates del jard\u00edn. Providence Meeting contaba con los pasteles de Ruth para las comidas compartidas o en los d\u00edas de trabajo del Meeting. Ense\u00f1\u00f3 en la escuela dominical y form\u00f3 parte del Comit\u00e9 de Costura. Atra\u00eda discretamente a los reci\u00e9n llegados al Meeting, present\u00e1ndolos a otros e involucr\u00e1ndolos en la ayuda para la hora del caf\u00e9.    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cuidar de los dem\u00e1s era fundamental en su vida. Sus trabajos de enfermer\u00eda consist\u00edan sobre todo en visitar a nuevas madres y reci\u00e9n nacidos. Despu\u00e9s de jubilarse en 1982, cuid\u00f3 de una t\u00eda anciana y, m\u00e1s tarde, de Don durante su enfermedad final en 2008. Sus Amigos recuerdan su presencia tranquila y constante; sus visitas de cari\u00f1o cuando un nuevo beb\u00e9 se un\u00eda a una familia del Meeting; su c\u00e1lido sentido del humor; su ayuda pr\u00e1ctica con tareas que pasaban casi desapercibidas pero que sosten\u00edan la comunidad del Meeting; y su aut\u00e9ntico ejemplo de c\u00f3mo vivir una buena vida.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vivi\u00f3 con la fiel seguridad de la presencia viva de Dios reflejada en el Salmo 139, que se ley\u00f3 en su Meeting conmemorativo: \u201cOh Se\u00f1or, t\u00fa me has escudri\u00f1ado y me has conocido. . .\u201d. Su hija tambi\u00e9n ley\u00f3 uno de los poemas favoritos de Ruth: \u201cDios no ha prometido\u201d de Annie Johnson Flint, y sus Amigos cantaron \u201cEn el jard\u00edn\u201d, un himno que hab\u00eda pedido que se cantara y que capta su vida tanto en t\u00e9rminos pr\u00e1cticos como espirituales. Su larga vida estuvo anclada en su fe cristiana y en el peque\u00f1o pero abundante jard\u00edn que ella y Don cuidaron con cari\u00f1o. Los Amigos de Providence est\u00e1n agradecidos por sus muchos dones a su comunidad.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Ruth le sobreviven cuatro hijos, Stephen Gates, Alan Gates, Joel Gates y Amy Quigley; y una hermana, Alice Dole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gates\u2014Ruth Estelle Taber Gates, de 91 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 23 de julio de 2019, en paz, en East Providence, R.I.,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5090,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9829],"tags":[11127,10915,10876,20115],"fpb_issue_category":[10673],"class_list":["post-3129944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hitos","tag-cocina","tag-comunidad","tag-dios","tag-mkutano-wa-providence","fpb_issue_category-septiembre-de-2020"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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