Ruth Perry’s Death – Cause and Date

Ruth Perry

Born (Birthday) July 16, 1939

Death Date January 8, 2017

Age of Death 77 years

Cause of Death N/A

Profession Politician

The politician Ruth Perry died at the age of 77. Here is all you want to know and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Liberian politician who was the Chairwoman of the Council of the State of Liberia from 1996 to 1997. She helped heal her country in the aftermath of the First Liberian Civil War.

She graduated from the Teachers College of the University of Liberia, and then worked as an elementary school teacher.

She was the first female president of Liberia.

Personal Life

She married McDonald Perry and they had seven children together.

She and Joyce Banda both served as presidents of African countries.

How did Ruth Perry die?

Ruth Perry took her own life in January after being told Caversham Primary School in Reading was being downgraded from outstanding to inadequate. In a pre-inquest review, coroner Heidi Connor said she would hear evidence about Mrs Perry’s interactions with the Ofsted team.