Belew lived in Chicago for most of her life until relocating to Fort Myers, Florida, in the late 1960s.
[3][11] Ruth Belew was the letterer for the Apple Mary comic strip, created by Martha Orr, from its inception in 1935.
Saunders changed the name of the strip to Mary Worth and brought in artist Ken Ernst, but retained Belew as letterer.
[7] Dell's earliest paperbacks featured a map on the back cover depicting some element of the book, whether it was a city block, and apartment, or a cattle trail in the old west.
[5] Ruth Belew relocated to Fort Myers, Florida, in the late 1960s, where she continued to work on the Mary Worth daily strip.