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Created page with "'''Ruth Velotta Varady Doreck''' <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitepages.com/name/Ruth-Doreck|title=Ruth Doreck|publisher=Whitepages.com|accessdate=March 30, 2020}}</ref>..."
'''Ruth Velotta Varady Doreck''' <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whitepages.com/name/Ruth-Doreck|title=Ruth Doreck|publisher=Whitepages.com|accessdate=March 30, 2020}}</ref> (January 1938 – March 27, 2020) was a leading figure for more than fifty years in the theater community of [[Shreveport]] and [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]]. She was the fourth person in Caddo Parish to succumb to the [[coronavirus]] (COVID-19); all four of the first infected patients also had "pre-existing serious conditions."<ref name=doreck/>
A friend, Susan Kirton, described Doreck as "a true steel magnolia. This petite, gentle, kind person was one of the strongest people I’ve ever known. She was a joy to act with and a precious and hysterical person. When she left your company, she would often say, ‘You know, I just love you.’”<ref name=doreck>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2020/03/29/shreveports-ruth-doreck-loses-battle-covid-19/2935348001/|title=Shreveport's Ruth Doreck loses battle with COVID-19|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=March 29, 2020|accessdate=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
Doreck last appeared on stage in January 2020, when she was cast in the Stage Center production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.” It is unknown how many productions that Doreck performed during the years.<ref name=doreck/>
[[Lane Crockett]], former entertainment editor of ''The Shreveport Times'' and the former ''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' said that he accompanied Doreck each summer for the [[Shakespeare]] Festival in Kilgore, [[Texas]]. "Theater was Ruth's go-to-place. I remember seeing her as Agnes Gooch in ''Auntie Mame'' not long after I moved here, and she stole the show. …" Edie Cummings, an administrator at Centenary College in Shreveport, said that Doreck "just had a zest for life and was always up to adventure."<ref name=doreck/>
==See also==
*[[Delton Harrison]], another figure in the Shreveport arts community who died in 2019
==References==
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[[Category:Actresses]]
A friend, Susan Kirton, described Doreck as "a true steel magnolia. This petite, gentle, kind person was one of the strongest people I’ve ever known. She was a joy to act with and a precious and hysterical person. When she left your company, she would often say, ‘You know, I just love you.’”<ref name=doreck>{{cite web|url=https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2020/03/29/shreveports-ruth-doreck-loses-battle-covid-19/2935348001/|title=Shreveport's Ruth Doreck loses battle with COVID-19|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=March 29, 2020|accessdate=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
Doreck last appeared on stage in January 2020, when she was cast in the Stage Center production of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.” It is unknown how many productions that Doreck performed during the years.<ref name=doreck/>
[[Lane Crockett]], former entertainment editor of ''The Shreveport Times'' and the former ''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' said that he accompanied Doreck each summer for the [[Shakespeare]] Festival in Kilgore, [[Texas]]. "Theater was Ruth's go-to-place. I remember seeing her as Agnes Gooch in ''Auntie Mame'' not long after I moved here, and she stole the show. …" Edie Cummings, an administrator at Centenary College in Shreveport, said that Doreck "just had a zest for life and was always up to adventure."<ref name=doreck/>
==See also==
*[[Delton Harrison]], another figure in the Shreveport arts community who died in 2019
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Doreck, Ruth}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[[Category:Actresses]]