Ruth Lord

died on Sunday, January 18 at Clearbrook Inn in Silverdale. She was 94 years old.Ruth was born in Mapleville, Rhode Island on July 27, 1914. Her parents were Jefferson B. Kimball and Florence Nightingale Heap. Jefferson Kimball worked as a designer in woolen mills throughout New England, including Pittsfield and Damariscotta, Maine. As a youth, Ruth and her three sisters Barbara, Elizabeth and Jean were known for their musical gifts, performing for local church and community groups.Ruth had a lifelong love of the violin. She was an accomplished violinist, and played with the University of Maine Orchestra and the orchestra of Belmont Massachusetts. Many an evening was spent playing string quartets with her friends. She enjoyed attending Bainbridge Chorale and Orchestra concerts during her later years.A 1936 graduate of the University of Maine, Ruth taught public school before her marriage to Francis Jordan Lord of Old Town in September of 1938. The family settled in Belmont and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, with Frank serving for three decades as an executive with the Polaroid Corporation.In addition to her violin, Ruth loved gardening, painting, summers on Martha's Vineyard and visiting with her friends. She moved to Country Meadows and then Clearbrook Inn in 2000 to be closer to her daughter. She had a way of making each person around her feel like the most important person in the world. Ruth is survived by her daughters, Cynthia Lord Harrison of Bainbridge Island and Linda Lord Schmidt of Troy Ohio and their husbands, David and Miles; grandsons Ian and Charles Schmidt and Benjamin and Jordan Harrison; great-granddaughter Amaya Maye Delain Schmidt; sister Jean Larsen of Freedom, Maine and her devoted friend, Janine Krogh. Preceding her in death were her husband Frank Lord, her son Geoffrey Peter Lord, and her sisters Elizabeth Langlois and Barbara Larlee. Private services will be held. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to a charity of one's choice.