Ruth Leach Amonette

Ruth Leach was born in 1916 in Oakland, California. She had one sister. She attended Piedmont High School in Piedmont, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley starting in 1933. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. While in school, she played tennis. After graduating in 1937 with a degree in political science, she worked as a dental assistant. Eventually, she quit to work at the Golden Gate International Exposition.

After retiring, she married Walter Bill Pollock in 1954. They lived near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was a board member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. She and Pollock adopted a daughter in 1956. They relocated to Switzerland and then to California. Pollock died in 1977. Amonette remarried in 1988 to Wilbur K. Amonette. She published an autobiography in 1999. Amonette died in 1999. She died in Carmel, California in 2004.