history. The last of these was Las Tejanas: 300 years of History (with Teresa Palomo Acosta). Personal life Winegarten bore three children, Martha Frances Addington, (1952–2007), Marc David Sanders (1954– ), and Debra Lou Winegarten (1957– 2018). Death and legacy The Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation for Women in Texas History, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, was started by a group of her colleagues to carry on her work. The Foundation's website is: www.womenintexashistory.org. Winegarten died in 2004, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She had been living at an assisted-living facility and was in the early stages of dementia. Writings about Ruthe Winegarten include the book Mum's the Word (Austin, Texas: Sunbelt Media, 2001), and an obituary in Off Our Backs. "Ruthe Winegarten" by Nancy Baker Jones, in Patrick L. Cox and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr., eds., Writing the Story of Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013). Notes Bibliography Further reading Joe Simnacher. "Ruthe Lewin Winegarten: Historian told the stories of notable Texas women," The Dallas Morning News, June 24, 2004, Metro section, 11B. External links of the Ruthe Winegarten papers, University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries (UTSA Libraries) Special Collections. 1929 births 2004 suicides 2004 deaths American feminist writers Jewish feminists Jewish American historians Writers from Austin, Texas Suicides by firearm in Texas Southern Methodist University alumni University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts alumni University of Texas at Arlington alumni American women historians 20th-century American women Historians from Texas 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American women