Mary Ruth Brown was born in the southern part of Ohio. She was the youngest daughter of Raymond and Daisy Brown. She had seven siblings, and was raised by a single mother. Her education was a meager one, quitting school in the tenth grade to go to work. She met her husband and married at the age of nineteen. After having four children of her own, she found herself as a single mother. Never having much time to read, she knew nothing about writing poetry. Then at the age of seventy she discovered God had given her this talent, ***Love Forever and Always*** is about her prrayers, dreams and hopes.