Ruth Collins Sharp Altshuler (1924 – December 8, 2017) was an American philanthropist living in Dallas, Texas.
The Dallas Morning News wrote that she helped raise tens of millions of dollars for charity.
[3] Her father, Carr Collins Sr., had founded the Fidelity Union Life Insurance Company in the 1920s.
[4] Altshuler graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, and spent her summers at an exclusive girls' camp in Texas Hill Country.
[5] She attended Southern Methodist University where she met her husband, a naval aviator, when she was a junior.
[3] Altshuler started working at Dallas Love Field and met her second husband, Charles S. Sharp, whom she married in 1947.
[16] In 2008, the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars gave Altshuler their Award for Public Service.