Columbus resident Ruby Wright, 90, has knitted over 1,000 caps for NICU babies at Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, Mo. She had the opportunity to hold Truett Percival, one of the recipients of her caps. Courtesy photo.
Since 2019, Ruby Wright of Columbus has hand-crafted more than 1,000 hand-knitted caps for the baby boys and girls born at Freeman Hospital West.
Monday morning, June 19, Wright made the now-familiar walk from the parking lot to the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She carried a plastic bag filled with blueand peach-colored caps for the newborns.
