Ruby Ross Wood [SEP] cause of death
world seems small, she has had quite an impact in the New York City design scene.
Ruby Ross Wood died of lung cancer.
See also.
- "The Great Lady Decorators: The Women Who Defined Interior Design, 1870-1955" by Adam Lewis (2010), Rizzoli, New York.
Ruby Ross Wood
Ruby Ross Wood (26 October 1881 – 18 February 1950) was a prominent New York interior decorator and the owner of Ruby Ross Wood, Inc., a decorating company launched in the 1920s.
Background.
She was born Ruby Ross Pope in Monticello, Georgia, the eldest daughter of a cotton broker and a descendant of several families prominent in America since Colonial times, including the Washingtons of Virginia and the Carrolls of Maryland.
Her first husband was Wallace Field Goodnow, an engineer from a