Ruth Fortunato

Born in 1928 in Springfield, MA , she graduated from Northampton, HS and graduated from New England Deconess Hospital in Boston. She worked at Wesson Women’s Hospital in Springfield in Labor and Delivery and at Morton Hospital in Taunton, MA as well as the Jocelyn Diabetes summer camp for boys, and a brief time at the Smith College infirmary.She left her Nursing career to care for her son Billy for many years, and after his passing, she developed her artistic talents of Theorum painting, tole tray painting and reverse painting on glass. She and her husband Zachary enjoyed their retirement in Hendersonville, NC and played bridge , golfed and developed many friends who were quilters. She taught quilting for Georgia Bonesteel's shop and was a president of the NC Quilters Association and attended several Symposiums.

She is predeceased by her husband,Zachary , her son William S. Roberts,her parents Frederick S. Lloyd and Ethel ( Liggett)Lloyd and her only sibling, Wilma Jean ( Lloyd)Brooks and her husband, Carl Brooks. She is survived by her daughter,Diane E.(Roberts) Carter DiPietro and her son Bruce Roberts and wife, Elaine. There are 7 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren, and several nephews and nieces, many friends of NC and Chelmsford, MA as well as her church family at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since her membership in 2014.

Her Celebration of Life will be held on April 11,2026 at 9:30 am. Her burial at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Northampton, MA at 11am to follow.