Background
Ruth Carter was born August 7, 1929, in Plains, Georgia, the third of the four children in the family of James Earl Carter, Senior and Lillian Gordy Carter.
Ruth Carter was born August 7, 1929, in Plains, Georgia, the third of the four children in the family of James Earl Carter, Senior and Lillian Gordy Carter.
Georgia College & State University.
She died of pancreatic cancer in 1983. Besides the former president, Stapleton had an older sister, Gloria (1926-1990) and a younger brother, Billy (1937-1988). Stapleton earned her bachelor"s degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
She later earned a theological degree.
Stapleton married Robert Thome Stapleton (1925-2014), a veterinarian, in 1948 and had four children: Gloria Lynn (born May 31, 1950), Sydney Scott (born December 23, 1951), Patricia Gordy (born May 29, 1954) and Robert Michael (born November 5, 1958). She was portrayed during this portion of Flynt"s life by Donna Hanover in the film The People versus
Larry Flynt. Stapleton was also known for her involvement in the healing ministry, especially in healing of memories.
Her books The Gift of Inner Healing, The Experience of Inner Healing, and In His Footsteps: The Healing Ministry of Jesus, Then and Now,, illustrate her beliefs on inner healing, which involved healing of memories in which a person would go over their memories and bring Jesus into the memory to help them forgive or be comforted as required by Jesus. Kessler goes on to write that Robert T. Stapleton (Ruth"s husband) "said that he had no knowledge of such an affair".
(Publishers Weekly reviews Kessler"s book as follows: "In this tabloid-sounding account, Kessler (The Federal Bureau of Investigation) has aimed very low, armed with "inside information" provided by presidential aides, servants, staff members and Secret Service agents that has the ring of backstairs gossip." (In addition, Brandt would have been in his late 60s at the time ).
In his book on alleged White House scandals, Ronald Kessler claims that an unnamed member of the Carter staff told him that Stapleton "at one point was deeply involved with Willy Brandt" during her brother"s administration, but that "obody ever found out about it".