[1] Her father, Benjamin F. Stuber, taught strings in the Evanston (IL) public schools.
Her early training was as violinist, and she played violin in the Evanston Symphony in high school and while studying at Northwestern University's School of Music in the early 1930s, being elected chair of the music students' social committee in fall 1931.
By fall 1933 she lived in Florence, Alabama, where her father opened his Stuber School of Music.
[6][7] Beginning in 1937, she taught band and orchestra in the Carle Place schools of Nassau County, NY.
[citation needed] Both Ruth and Armand are buried at Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville, Ohio.