This woman feeding her twins is our grandmother, Ruth Millett Lowry, who we knew as Grandmommy. The little boy is our father, Pete, and the girl is our Aunt Lynne. But this isn’t a photo taken from a family album. Grandmommy was a nationally beloved, syndicated newspaper columnist, and the photo is part of a promotional flyer for her column "We The Women."

 

For more than 30 years, Grandmommy wrote syndicated columns that ran in newspapers across the country. For most of her career, she penned six women’s interest columns and six manners columns per week, which appeared under the name Ruth Millett.  By the time she retired, the columns ran in 450 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada.