A Message from
Ruby Berdean Long-Colbert
President & Founder

I was born September 18, 1951 to parents with little to no education. On the day I was born, the doctor told my parents that I would not live to see the next day. You see, my parents had felt the pain of losing five children before me. Four were stillborn and one lived two days before she passed away - her name was Edna. Fittingly, my parents named me "Ruby," which in Biblical Hebrew means, "Gift from God". Read more about Ruby's inspiration for starting The Forgotten.