Ruby Cooke

Mary Beneda Cooke was born in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, Jamaica in 1912, the seventh of the 9 children of Elymas and Mary Kleinhans.

She was especially fond of children, and compiled several anecdotes over many years of observation of those between the ages of 2 and 5. Some of them date back to her own childhood.

She died in Kingston, Jamaica on January 30, 2002.

A devout Catholic, she had a special devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to St. Jude Thaddeus, patron of cases requiring extraordinary help.

Her ashes are interred in the columbarium at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, 120 Old Hope Road, Kingston 6, Jamaica.