“As long as there is baseball, Daddy’s name is always going to be mentioned. He was one of a kind,” Julia Ruth Stevens once said.
HENDERSON, Nev. — Julia Ruth Stevens, the last surviving daughter of Hall of Fame baseball slugger Babe Ruth and a decades-long champion of his legacy, has died at age 102, her family has announced.
Diane Murphy, a fellow resident at Prestige Senior Living at Mira Loma in Henderson, told The Associated Press that Julia Stevens had lost her sight but remained bright and vibrant.“She was so sharp and laughed at the right moments,” Murphy said. “She was a lovely lady.” Julia was the older of two daughters adopted by Ruth. Dorothy Ruth Pirone, who was Ruth’s daughter from a previous relationship, died in 1989 at age 67.
“She said as far as she was concerned, between being adopted and the transfusion, ’I’m his daughter, period,”’ Tom Stevens said. She made her final trip to Yankee Stadium at age 91 in 2008 to say goodbye to one of her dad’s favourite places where he hit many of his 714 career home runs.
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