CONWAY — Julia Ruth Stevens, last surviving daughter of Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth, died last Saturday at an assisted-living facility in Henderson, Nev. She was 102.
Stevens — who was adopted by Ruth when her mother married him in 1929 when Julia was 12 — called the Mount Washington Valley home for many years.
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