Ruth Fertel
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Ruth Ann Udstad Fertel (February 5, 1927 – April 16, 2002) was a Louisiana businesswoman best known as the creator of Ruth's Chris Steak Houses.
Early life and teaching
Ruth Ann Udstad was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a poor family of Alsatian descent. Her father was an insurance salesman, and her mother was a kindergarten tutor. During the Great Depression, she and her family migrated to her mother's birthplace, the community of Homeplace in Plaquemines, about 60 miles away from New Orleans, which was about 60 miles away from New Orleans. (Note: According to some reports, she was either born or grew up in Happy Jack, Louisiana, as well as in Plaquemines.)
She skipped several grades in elementary school and graduated at the age of 15. The family used the funds from her brother Sig's World War Two G.I. Bill is a student at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where she graduated at age 19 with honors in chemistry and physics.
In 1946, Udstad began teaching at McNee State University in Lake Charles. She left after two semesters.
Jerry and Randy were born on October 2, 1948, she married Rodney Fertel, who lived in Baton Rouge and expressed her passion for horses, and they had two sons, Jerry and Randy. They opened a racing stable in Baton Rouge in 1951. Ruth obtained a thoroughbred trainer's license, making her Louisiana's first female horse trainer. Ruth and Rodney divorced in 1958. Rodney lost in the 1969 mayoral election in New Orleans as "The Gorilla Man," often wearing a gorilla suit to campaign rallies, promoting the restoration of the Audubon Zoo.
She started supplementing her income by making drapes outside of her own house since she was unable to help herself and her teenage sons with her alimony payments. She began working as a lab technician for physician-scientist George E. Burch at Tulane University School of Medicine in 1961, earning $4,800 a year.