Family
Ruckman has been married three times, with his first two marriages ending in contentious divorces. During his marriage to Janie Bess May of Sawyerville, Alabama, they had five children together. His son, P.S. Ruckman Jr., is a professor of political science at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Illinois.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)
“... what a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)