Margaret Ruth Runner 1909 Sep 01 4081

Margaret Ruth Runner Sex: Female

Birth Date	1909 Sep 01 CA
Death Date	2006 Sep 01 Sonoma CA
Father	Waldo Errol Runner	Born: 1882 Feb 17 Colorado	Died: 1956 Feb 22
Mother	Virginia May McLanahan	Born: 1886 Aug 10	Died: 1967 Jan 08

Margaret Ruth Runner
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Mother of Actor/Director Clint Eastwood. Widow of Clinton Eastwood (1906-1970), and John Wood (1913-2004). She was the daughter of Waldo (Walt) Errol Runner and Virginia May McClanaham. Ruth was often her sons date at the Academy Awards. Her favorite Clint Eastwood Movie was "Paint Your Wagon." Before she went to the Academy Awards, Rogers said Mrs. Wood always told him that if "anyone in Hollywood asked" about her hair, she would tell them where she got it done. Mrs. Wood was 97. Obit in the Monterey Herald February 8, 2006: Margaret Ruth Wood, mother of famed actor and director Clint Eastwood, and a Carmel Valley resident, died Saturday at 97. Mrs. Wood had lived on the Monterey Peninsula since the late 1960s and maintained strong bonds locally with her son and daughter, Jeanne Bernhardt of Carmel. At 84, Mrs. Wood accompanied her son to the 1993 Academy Awards presentation, where he told a worldwide audience that she was the most important woman in his life. As Eastwood won Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director for the gritty western "Unforgiven," he praised his mother, who was beaming in the crowd wearing a black and silver gown. "Its like every mothers dream," Mrs. Wood told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter the next day. "It was pretty unbelievable to have him say that, although we are naturally close." Judie Hoyt, an assistant at Eastwoods film company Malpaso Productions in Burbank, said the actor-director would not be releasing a statement about his mothers death. By all accounts, Eastwood and his mother had a very strong relationship, and he often turned to her for advice. She first suggested casting Meryl Streep opposite Eastwood in the steamy romance "The Bridges of Madison County," which he directed. "He always sought her advice," said Carmel resident and civic volunteer Pat Sippel, who met Eastwood and his mother in 1970 while working on a benefit celebrity tennis tournament at Pebble Beach. At the 2004 Academy Awards, Eastwood and his mother walked hand in hand on the red carpet. "I just felt a close mother-son bond," Sippel said. "She seemed to give good advice and he enjoyed her company... Im sure its going to be a big loss to him and to the family." Her death came on the eve of this weeks AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, a golf tournament with which Eastwood has been closely linked for years -- first as a celebrity participant and, most recently, as chairman of the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, the event organizer. Eastwood is taking part in some tournament activities, but probably will not be as visible as years past, a tournament official said. Though she was not fond of film violence, Mrs. Wood was a devoted fan of her sons movies, saying once that she watched several of them many times and was "the first one in the theater every time." Her favorite Eastwood movie, however, occupies an almost forgotten corner of his celluloid output: the musical "Paint Your Wagon." In 1986, after Eastwood was sworn in as the mayor of Carmel, Mrs. Wood told reporters attending the event that her son would be "a fine mayor." "Don cut it down too fine," Eastwood joked. "Ill be great." Displaying the same brand of laconic humor that Eastwood possesses, Mrs. Wood told the Carmel City Council in 1993 how her own film debut -- as an extra in a train-boarding scene in "Unforgiven" -- was edited out after her director son filmed the scene eight times. "I ended up on the cutting room floor," she said, as she accepted a city certificate of appreciation for Eastwoods 1986-88 tenure as Carmel mayor. Mrs. Wood was born in 1909 and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. She and Eastwoods father, Clinton Eastwood, lived in Piedmont, a wealthy community next to Oakland, before moving to Pebble Beach in the 1960s. He died of a heart attack in July 1970. She married John Wood, a retired lumber executive in 1972, after meeting him on a trip to Hawaii. For her second marriage, Eastwood walked his mother down the aisle. The Woods traveled extensively and she played golf like her son. She and her husband moved to Hacienda Carmel in Carmel Valley in 1988. John Wood died in February 2004. Roy Rogers, a Carmel hairdresser who did Mrs. Woods hair for years, said he "enjoyed her and her young spirit." Before she went to the Academy Awards, Rogers said Mrs. Wood always told him that if "anyone in Hollywood asked" about her hair, she would tell them where she got it done. "Her favorite thing was to go to Hawaii," Rogers said. "In recent years, she always would say, This is my last trip, but she went again just a few months ago." Her daughter frequently picked up Mrs. Wood at Rogers shop, but Clint Eastwood often did too. "He was devoted to her," he said. Born Margaret Ruth Runner, she met Clinton Eastwood, a high school football and swimming star, when they were teenagers in Piedmont. She, too, was tall and attractive like her future husband, according to Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel. But she was too tall to realize her childhood dream of being a ballet star. Clinton and Ruth were ideal parents, one acquaintance told Schickel. "She certainly has lived a long life and probably an interesting one," Sippel said.

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Clinton Sr Eastwood Sex: Male

Birth Date	1906 Jun 11 Monterey CA
Death Date	1970 Jul 21 Pebble Beach CA
Father	Burr Eastwood	Born: 1871 Oct 11	Died: 1963 Oct 11
Mother	Jesse Mable Anderson	Born: 1878	Died: 1925 Oct 15

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Ancestors Chart

Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-
Waldo Errol Runner b.1882 Colorado d.1956	Charles Claude Runner C.C. b.1857 Alexandria VA d.1936 See Notes	John Henry Runner b.1828 Middletown, Maryland, Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland, United States d.1888	Philip Runner Philip Laufer b.1798 Frederick, Maryland, United States d.1862	Henry Lewis Runner LAUFER b.1760 Frederick, Maryland d.1818	John Michael Runner II MICHAEL LAUFER b.1732 Lauffen am Neckar, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany d.1804 See Notes	Johannes Michael Lauffer RUNNER came to America in 1753 b.1705 Lauffen am Neckar, Stuttgart, Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg, Germany d.1793 See Notes
							Waldo Errol Runner b.1882 Colorado d.1956
						Anna Marie Elisabeth Wertz b.1708 Germany d.1803 See Notes	Wilhelm Wurtz Sr b.1703 Baden Germany d.1782 See Notes	johannes wurtz b.1680 Bassel Germany	NN Wurtz	MORE>
								Maria Magdalena Schantz b.1680 Kocherstetten, Hohenlohekreis, Baden-WÃ¼rttemberg, Germany	Hanns Jerg Schantz b.1615	MORE>
							Anna Catharina Kohl BAHLMANN b.1706 Baden Germany d.1791 See Notes	Nicolaus Bahlman CLAUS b.1672 d.1753 See Notes
								Anna Catharina Offeler b.1671 d.1713
					Maria Elizabeth Wurtz b.1733 Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg d.1803	Wilhelm William Wurtz b.1703 Tauberbischofsheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Werttemberg, Germany d.1782
							Maria Elizabeth Wurtz b.1733 Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg d.1803
						Anna Catharina Kohl Bahlmann b.1706 Tauberbischofsheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany d.1791 See Notes	Nicolaus Bahlman CLAUS b.1672 d.1753 See Notes
								Anna Catharina Kohl Bahlmann b.1706 Tauberbischofsheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany d.1791 See Notes
							Anna Catharina Offeler b.1671 d.1713
								Anna Catharina Offeler b.1671 d.1713
				Anna Catherine Schotlin b.1761 Frederick, Maryland, United States d.1849

			Barbara ? b.1798 Frederick, Maryland, United States d.1869
				Barbara ? b.1798 Frederick, Maryland, United States d.1869
		Penelope Concordia Suckett b.1831 Virginia, United States d.1902

	Sophia Aurelia Bartholomew b.1859 Buena Vista CO d.1928	Edward Franklin Bartholomew b.1826 Wallingford, New Haven, CT d.1891	Noyes Dana Bartholomew b.1785 Wallingford, New Haven, CT d.1869	Capt. Andrew Bartholomew b.1744 Wallingford, New Haven, CT d.1818 See Notes	Lt. Joseph Bartholomew b.1721 Branford, New Haven CT d.1781 See Notes	Rev. Andrew Bartholomew b.1670 Roxbury, Suffolk MA d.1753	Lt. William Bartholomew b.1640 Ipswitch, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony d.1697 See Notes	William Bartholomew II b.1602 Burford, Oxford, England d.1680 See Notes	William Bartholomew I WIlliam the Elder b.1567 warborough, Oxfordshire, England d.1634 See Notes	MORE>
								Anna Lord
							Anna Lord
						Hannah Frisbee	John Frisbee
								Hannah Frisbee
							Ruth Bowers
								Ruth Bowers



		Cordelia Kellogg b.1829 Egremont, Berkshire MA d.1900	Edward Kellogg b.1799 Wallingford CT d.1851	Ephraim Kellogg Jr b.1776 Sheffield, Berkshire, MA d.1844	Ephraim Kellogg Sr. b.1740 Sheffield, Berkshire, MA d.1819 See Notes	Deacon Silas Kellogg Sr. b.1714 Westfield, Hampshire County (Hampden Co) Province of MA d.1792 See Notes	Stephen Kellogg b.1668 d.1722	Joseph Kellogg b.1625 d.1708	Martyn Kellogg b.1595 d.1671	MORE>
								Abigail Terry b.1646 d.1726	Stephen Terry b.1608 d.1668	MORE>
							Lydia Belding b.1675 d.1759	John Belding
								Lydia Belding b.1675 d.1759
						Ruth Root b.1722 d.1817	Joshua Root b.1682 d.1730	John Root b.1642 d.1687	John Root b.1608 d.1684	MORE>
								Mary Ashley b.1644 d.1702	Robert Ashley d.1682	MORE>
							Margaret Gilbert b.1693	Thomas Gilbert Jr b.1659 d.1698	Thomas Gilbert b.1611 d.1662	MORE>
								Anna Bancroft d.1690
					Ruth Hosmer b.1745 d.1818	Thomas Hosmer b.1701 d.1777	Thomas Hosmer b.1675 d.1732	Stephen Hosmer b.1645	Thomas Hosmer b.1602	MORE>
								Ruth Hosmer b.1745 d.1818
							Ann Prentice	John Prentice Jr	John Prentice b.1627	MORE>
								Ann Prentice
						Suzannah Steele	Thomas Steele b.1681	Samuel Steele b.1652	John Steele b.1624	MORE>
								Mercy Bradford b.1660	William Bradford Jr b.1624	MORE>
							Suzannah Webster b.1686	Jonathon Webster b.1657	Robert Webster b.1619	MORE>
								Dorcas Hopkins	Stephen Hopkins b.1633	MORE>
				Jane Ashley b.1777	William Ashley b.1742	Aaron Ashley b.1702	Samuel Ashley b.1664 d.1761	David Ashley b.1664 Springfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony See Notes	Robert Ashley d.1602	MORE>
								Jane Ashley b.1777
							Sarah Kellogg b.1666	Joseph Kellogg b.1625 d.1708	Martyn Kellogg b.1595 d.1671	MORE>
								Joanna d.1666
						Sarah Day b.1708	John Day b.1673	Thomas Day b.1636
								Sarah Day b.1708
							Sarah Day b.1708
					Jane Dutcher b.1743	Roelof Dutcher b.1714 d.1805	Roelof de Duytscher d.1737
								Jane Dutcher b.1743
							Jane Dutcher b.1743
						Catrina Reinders
							Catrina Reinders
			Jane Hall b.1804	Hezekiah Hall b.1778	Samuel Hall IV b.1750	Samuel Hall III b.1709	Samuel Hall Jr b.1680	Samuel Hall b.1648	John Hall b.1605	MORE>
								Jane Hall b.1804
							Love Royce b.1687	Nathaniel Royce d.1726	Robert Royce d.1676	MORE>
								Sarah Lanthrop b.1655	Samuel Lanthrop b.1621	MORE>
						Sarah Hull b.1710	Benjamin Hull b.1672 d.1741	John Hull b.1640	Richard Hull d.1662	MORE>
								Sarah Hull b.1710
							Sarah Hull b.1710
					Elizabeth Parsons b.1750	John Parsons b.1713	Samuel Parsons b.1688	Samuel Parsons b.1652	Joseph Parsons b.1618	MORE>
								Elizabeth Cooke d.1645	Aaron Cooke Jr b.1813	MORE>
							Elizabeth Cooke d.1645
						Esther Hall b.1719	Samuel Hall Jr b.1680	Samuel Hall b.1648	John Hall b.1605	MORE>
								Esther Hall b.1719
							Love Royce b.1687	Nathaniel Royce d.1726	Robert Royce d.1676	MORE>
								Sarah Lanthrop b.1655	Samuel Lanthrop b.1621	MORE>
				Sarah Lanthrop b.1655
Parents 2	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024-persons	-
Virginia May McLanahan b.1886 Missouri d.1967

2 persons	4 persons	8 persons	16 persons	32 persons	64 Persons	128 persons	256 persons	512 persons	1024 persons	-

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