Zorro, Reta, Shelley and Ethan Ruben

Zorro and Reta were married on December 23, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois. They were married for 59 years. Ruben Family Tree. This page was last updated on 05/20/02.

	Zorro Ruben was born on November 22, 1913 in New York. He obtained a civil engineering degree from Armour Institute which became Illinois Tech. He founded Steel Grip Plastics which became Buzzmaster, Inc. a company that manufactured tools in the Chicago area. Zorro was a boxer in school, had a love for fine classical music, played the violin and was a tremendous family man. He passed away in 1994 and is sorely missed.
	Reta Ruben was born on September 26, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois. She lives today in her home in Tucson, AZ. During the depression she worked as a Vocational Advisor for the Cook County Welfare office, a public relief organization helping people find work in in the Work Project Administration. (She wanted to become a nurse, but after graduating from high school at 16 she was too young to take the entrance exams which at the time required that you be 18.) She used the skills she developed during the Depression to help Zorro build his businesses years later and raised two wonderful children as well.
	Shelley Ruben Lipowich was born on April 17, 1939 in Elmhurst, Illinois. She married Maury Lipowich, an Architect in 1958 and raised two children, Jennie and Alex. She obtained a degree in English and Science from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, a Masters degree in Linguistics and a P.H.D. in Education from Loyola University. She is a life long educator. She lives in Arizona where she is President of her Hadassah Organization and works with the University of Arizona's Kanto Gakuin University, Center for English as a Second Language . You can see pictures at the Kanto site from her Fall 1998 class as well.
	Ethan Ruben was born on April 30, 1937 was born in Chicago, Illinois. He obtained a degree from the University of Illinois and completed his medical training there as well. He was a surgeon for 10 years which included some time in the Navy during the Vietnam war. When he returned, he did a 2nd residency in Pediatrics. He is a Pediatrician living in Alabama with his wife Marian and is in private practice. Marian is a Psychologist. Ethan and his previous wife Elizabeth had two children, Charlotte and David who reside in the southeast United States.