AP: Farewell to Ruthie the Duck Girl
September 16, 2008
Source: Associated Press
Ruthie the Duck Girl — a holdover from a time when colorful characters were as much a part of everyday life in New Orleans' French Quarter as beignets and cafe au lait — has died. She was 74.
Ruthie, whose real name was Ruth Grace Moulon, was an eccentric who zoomed from bar to bar on roller-skates, often wearing a ratty fur coat or wedding gown and trailed by a string of her beloved ducks, died of cancer Sept. 6 at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge, to where she had been evacuated because of Hurricane Gustav.
