Ruby Druce lived through two world wars and also two pandemics
Ruby Druce, Ireland’s oldest person has died age 109 years old, pictured at home in Castlefin in Co Donegal. Photograph: Joe DunneRuby Druce, who was 109 years old, died peacefully yesterday evening at her niece Carmel’s home in Castlefinn.
She became known as Ireland’s oldest living person last August following the passing of Galway woman Phyllis Furness, who was also aged 109.Rise of ‘The Family’: the group that became Ireland’s biggest crime gang without firing a shotHowever, Ruby never liked to be reminded of her increasing years and shrugged off any mention of her amazing years.
Mrs Druce lived through two world wars and also two pandemics, even contracting the Spanish flu and then Covid in 2023.She worked from the age of just 14 years at Porter’s Shirt Factory where she spent 48 years.Ruby had many loves in her life outside of her family and singer Daniel O’Donnell was one of them and was delighted when he and his wife Majella paid her a surprise visit in May last year.
Never one to turn down an invitation, Ruby obliged by performing the official switch-on of the Castlefinn Christmas lights in 2022.
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