Ruth Coker Burks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Ruth Coker Burks

HIV activist

Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1959

Place of Birth: Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States

Profession: funeral director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Frances Ruth Coker Burks (also known as the Cemetery Angel) is a former caregiver of AIDS crisis victims and an AIDS awareness advocate based in Arkansas.
During the onslaught of 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.
Because of the prejudices, fears, and stigma surrounding the disease at the time, she was often the patients' only caregiver until they eventually died.
She is recognized for burying them in her own family cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
She currently lives in Rogers, Arkansas.