We Are Also Keeping Ruth Buzzi in Our Thoughts and Prayers

Earlier this week, we learned Ruth Buzzi had suffered a series of strokes that greatly affected her health.

It’s a tense time for Ruth, who’ll turn 86 next week, and her family. Husband Kent Perkins, who has been married to Ruth for 43 years, is by her side and asks for thoughts and prayers for her recovery.

We at CandysDirt.com also ask that you keep Ruth in your thoughts and prayers.

Perkins has provided a glimmer of hope, posting on Facebook that his Ruth is showing “remarkable improvement.”

“She was able to move a leg that had been totally crippled with ‘stricture’ from a stroke for the past few weeks,” Perkins wrote. “She ate well, she talked normally and had her same old wonderful, award-winning sense of humor.”

That’s the Ruth we know, too.

Last June, CandysDirt.com talked with Ruth about her time living in Southlake and her 629-acre ranch in Erath County near Stephenville.

“I can honestly say Southlake was a fabulous place to live, and you could only be beaten by where we are now, with 14 lakes and ponds, more than a mile of beautiful creek running through the property with hundreds of acres of deep woods and horses, cattle, dogs, cats and lots of wildlife,” she told us.

Her husband also has a background in show business. He was an actor and writer, known best for Drive-In (1976), Lone Star Bar & Grill (1093), and the Nashville Palace (1980).

He also has been a force in commercial real estate. He owns the Lincoln Village Shopping Center on Camp Bowie Boulevard in Fort Worth He also manages several investment properties.

He and Buzzi also own commercial shopping, dining, retail, and healthcare facilities on Fort Worth’s west side. They established a charitable foundation, Sunset Charity, a not-for-profit philanthropic corporation that assists families and single parents with housing, food, transportation, and medical issues in the Erath County area.

If you don’t know Ruth from much more than a passing reference in pop culture history, do yourself a favor and check out her long list of performances on TV and in movies.

On small and big screens, she is always in character, a gentle soul with a wide smile.

She might be best known as purse-swinging Gladys Ormphby on Laugh-In, winning a Golden Globe award and receiving five Emmy nominations.

Over the years, and since she retired to Texas, she’s gained thousands of followers on social media, who remember her wonderful sense of humor.

Our readers also remember Ruth. In a comment on the post last June, a fan named Jackie recalled: “My husband and I ran into her and friends at a Fort Worth eatery. She has that distinctive look that she can’t disguise.”