Background
Britt, Ruth Evangeline Burgin was born on March 15, 1907 in Fayette, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Samuel Herschel and Lora (Miller) Burgin.
Britt, Ruth Evangeline Burgin was born on March 15, 1907 in Fayette, Missouri, United States. Daughter of Samuel Herschel and Lora (Miller) Burgin.
Attended, Wesleyan Woman's College, 1926—1927. AB, Tallahassee Woman's College, 1928.
Board directors Spofford Home Children, 1937—1938, Della Lamb Neighborhood House, 1937—1938, Young Men’s Christian Association, 1938—1939. Member Woman's City Club, Kansas City, Missouri, 1931—1973. Chairman hospital committee, 1931—1935.
Member Guild Friends Art William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, 1961—1975. Member fireside committee Kansas City Art Institute, 1948—1949. Member women's division Kansas City Philharmonic Association, 1966—1978.
With Kansas City Museum Association, 1966—1971. Board managers George H. Nettleton Home Aged Women, 1968—1973. Chairman Christian-social relations Women's Society Christian Services, 1946—1948, president, 1937—1938, chairman missions, 1961—1963.
Chairman St. Francis Auxiliary St. Francis Home Boys, Salina and Ellsworth, kan., 1946—1948. Supplies committee Community Chest Doctor, 1951. Volunteer visitor aged Mattie Rhodes Settlement House, 1948, Hospital Gray Lady, 1948—1950.
Member of United Daughters of the Confederacy, D.A.R. (regent 1942-1943).
Married James T. Britt, September 18, 1930. Children: Thomas Burgin, Robert McCammon.