Ruth Coker Burks

Uncommon card · No. 172888

Frances Ruth Coker Burks (born March 19, 1959), also known as the Cemetery Angel, is a former carer of AIDS crisis patients and an AIDS awareness advocate based in Arkansas. During the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980s, she used her salary as a real estate agent to care for AIDS patients whose families and communities had abandoned them. Due to the stigma surrounding the disease at the time, she was often the patients' only carer until they eventually died. She is additionally recognized for burying a number of AIDS victims in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

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