Rev. Ruby B. Klemin

On March 4, 1919, Ruby Bosworth Keyes was born to William John and Eliza Kate Bosworth Keyes, the second oldest of six children, three boys and three girls. Ruby received the baptism of the Holy Spirit at age twelve or thirteen, and remembers the age of fourteen as a time when she settled a lot of things with the Lord and determined to go all the way with Him.

The family began traveling in evangelistic work when Ruby was seventeen. She was the speaker and the other children would sing.

In 1940, Ruby began traveling on her own and received her General License with the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated. She made many good friends who believed in the oneness of God. Among them were the Ellis Scism and Ernest Moyer families. They shared scriptures with her and she was baptized in Jesus' Name.

Ruby was a part of the United Pentecostal Church since its merger in 1945, and was ordained around 1948, at the insistence of Howard Goss. She was elected the National Youth Secretary around 1947, and served for seven years. Prior to her appointment, she served as Youth President of the Northwest District for seven years.

John E. Klemin, Youth President of the Western District, sent a letter to Ruby in 1954, requesting that they begin a Christian correspondence and they later married on May 28, 1955. Brother Klemin was pastoring in Oakland, California, at the time of their marriage.

Ruby was soon very busy in a brand new role, as their first daughter, Marla, was born on May 22, 1956. Their family was complete when another daughter, Marilyn, joined them on July 3, 1958.

Through the years, Ruby was an active part of her husband's ministry, which led them to pastorates in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington, and the presidency of Conquerors Bible College, the mission’s field in Argentina, and dean of the Bible School in London, England.

Retiring back to Portland, Oregon, in 1992, they re-opened a home missionary church in Sandy, Oregon, where they pastored until Brother Klemin’s death on January 27, 1995.

She makes her home in Portland, Oregon, with her oldest daughter, Marla, and son-in-law, David Van Beek.

She passed from this life on May 31, 2012.