Biography:

Writer; homemaker. Born– October 4, 1914, Brilliant, Ala. Parents– Howard L. and Josephine (Cochran) Thomas. Married– Guy Thomas Halbrooks, September 30, 1935. Children– Two. Education– Graduate of John Herbert Phillips High School, 1933; correspondence course in creative writing, Christian Writers School, 1966. Contributor to anthologies, poetry magazines, and Sunday school materials. Awards from Alabama State Poetry Society, Alabama Writers conclave, Birmingham Quill Club, and Birmingham branch of the Pen Women of America. Died July 15, 2004.

Source:

Ruth Thomas Halbrooks, Birmingham; ancestry.com

Publication(s):

Gentle with this World.  Birmingham:  Thommlaine Press, 1991.

Joy Springs, Poems. Birmingham, Ala.; Wright’s Letter Shop, 1971.

Look out from the Mountain. Birmingham, Ala.; Wright’s Letter Shop, 1974.

Songs of the Heart. Birmingham, Ala.; Johnson Printing Co., 1976.