My memory of Ruth is her welcome to the neighborhood. 🙏🏻💖 So special and kind. I could not make her memorial today because it was a mandatory work day for me. I truly know how many of the neighbors adored her so! Her sweet walks in her orange vest with her beloved “Pepper”. Rest in peace beautiful you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Coming Ruth died with a Hurricane and will cremated in a hurricane coming.
She was a little hurricane herself we will miss her.

Sad to say goodby to the last of my many tiny grandparents!  Ruth has been a part of my life for 50 years, not only growing up in NY but moving a few blocks away from my Oma and Opa and Parents in Florida.  In the 70s and 80s as my Opa was up in the years my dad would drive the tour bus and support there bookings on Broadway and Saturday night live.  Christmases were always a huge affair in our home celebrating on Christmas Eve when I took the kids to Florida they knew Ruth as one of Santa's retired elves. She was always a joy and I loved our long evenings drinking wine late into the night reminiscing and telling stories whenever I visited. Ruth had a huge heart and always took in strays, she loved animals and always had dogs.  I want to Thank my best friend Heather for being in Ruth's life all these years but also for taking care of her this last year as her mental health was in decline. Ruth was loved by all, lived a Big life and will be missed.

I was at a social event at Lisa and Steve's home many years ago. I am only 5'1 and someone was talking to me about something that they did that was really high up. I made the comment that, "Well,  I couldn't have done that because I'm a midget." This little voice behind me said, "Well, I could." That was Ruthie. She really enriched my life in many ways. She was so kind and so loving and so warm and I will miss her forever....

Ruth was born in Switzerland and all of her family were all normal to tall size people. She was the only small one in her family. Ruth 
 Has a sister and a brother
 Sister Esther Marti
 Brother Urs Jenzer 
 Both were Always in contact and they frequently visited each other.
 
 Ruth born in 1944 and graduated high school in 1962
 In 1965 she heard of Pinder Circus touring begged her parents to take her to France because she heard the group of a little people called Bob Hermines midget performing. 
 Once she seen the show and met the troop Bob Rebernigg Lisa’s dad, my wife ask her to join the troop
 She convinced her parents she was running away with the circus and she did a year later took a boat to NYC
 The statue of liberty impressed her and felt she was in the land of opportunity.
 She joined Bob Hermines troop. 
 She move to queens NYC and stayed with the troop in an 18 room two story house. The garage had a Cadillac limousine flexible bus.
 
 She performed live shows, on TV, commercials, print work, Christmas shows even radio city musical hall. Most notably two seasons of the famed Sid and Marty Krofft TV Show Lidsville children’s theater TV all with fantasy costumes for the cast.
 
 Ruth performed tap dancing, accordion and Magic with Fred Soucek which became her husband in 1969 in Storytown NY lake George wher where they performed yearly
 So she married a magicians / drummer.
 TV changed things for the troop in the 1980s.
 So Less to no touring and few jobs.
 Ruth and Fred took jobs bought a house in Long Island and Fred worked as a fabric upholstery and Ruth in electronic manufacturing where she was a solderer. When she first came down to Florida, she is still a top solderer for a big company here in Florida.
 Fred passed away in 1995 during a hip replacement surgery when an aneurysm gave him a heart attack.
 
 There was alway a train layout in the Soucek house. Fred loved his trains. It took 8 years for her to remove the layout of beloved Fred
Steve Zigmont

Sorry to hear of Ms. Ruth's passing.   She was a good sport.  Once at a Baylife car show I told her, 'I'm disappointed.  All these cars, not one MG Midget.'    She reeled back laughing.   Another time I asked her if she was offended by the 'M' word (you know, people and their PC'ness).  'What's the M word?,' she asked.  When I told her,  she exclaimed, 'well that's what I am!!!!'   I'm sure her presence at Baylife and beyond will be missed.

OBITUARY

Ruth Elsbeth Soucek

May 1, 1944 – September 24, 2024

Stowers Funeral Home

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