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ARMY
KOREA

LUBBOCK
for wounds of the lower They soon married and had
abdomen, the left knee, right foot two daughters, Jo and Cindy.
and the left hand. Also, fractures Curtis and Frances moved to Lubbock, and he became
of the right foot and left hand.” the official court reporter for the 137th District Court
The doctors in Japan removed in Lubbock, Texas. He then opened his own freelance
17 pieces of shrapnel from his firm, Curtis D. Ruff & Associates,
abdomen, and he carried more in Certified Shorthand Reporters.
his leg all his life. Ruff was one The business thrived under his
of 16,166 soldiers from the 2nd leadership for many, many years.
Infantry Division to be wounded
in action during the Korean War. The poignant military funeral in
January 2016 may have closed
Discharged on April 24, 1953, he the last chapter in the life of
was awarded the Combat Infantry Curtis Ruff, but his stories and his
Badge, Purple Heart, Korean Service Medal, United example will continue to speak for
Nations Service Medal and many more awards. He was generations to come.
still somewhat disabled and no longer able to do manual
labor which was “all I had ever done.” His cousin,
Joe Ruff, was a court reporter and talked Curtis into Many thanks to the Ruff family for supplying the information
attending Lippert’s Business College for court reporting for this story.
classes in Plainview. While in school, he dated Frances
Wilson, who was also taking a bookkeeping course.

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