Ruby Tupper:  

Life My family moved from Cottonwood our Junior year. I hated leaving my hometown. It was very scary leaving MUHS to attend Prescott High School. A school of ONLY 2,000 students in grades 10-12. However, I made some really great friends there, and think of Prescott as my home as well. After high school, I attended Yavapai Community College while working full time at a restaurant for a semester. I found that work paid more than school, which made it much easier to support myself. I decided to focus more on my career during the next few years. I worked for Commonwealth Title for about five years, and then the City of Prescott for nearly ten years. I began my career at the City in the Finance Department and spent the last five years as Patrol Secretary with the Prescott Police Department. In 1982 I met Travis Williams, the brother of a girl that graduated with my class. He had just completed his career with the United States Navy. We married in 1984 and had a beautiful daughter, Tessa in 1986. Unfortunately, we divorced in 1989. I met my current husband, Mark Tupper, when he moved to Prescott to work at Fort Whipple (the VA Hospital) at a singles picnic sponsored by my church. Tessa and I were there to provide supervision for any children that attended the picnic with their parents. Tessa and Mark hit it off right away. Mark and I married in 1992 the same year our twins, Andrew and Mathew, were born. Did I mention that, Mark had two daghters from his first marriage? Kayla and Andrea were two of the reaso...Expand for more