Fran Ruh is the family storyteller and great granddaughter of the Schepp Family Patriarch. She grew up in Kansas and Omaha Nebraska and has retired from a 25-year career in commercial real estate. She and husband, Ron, now live in Omaha to be near their two sons and five grandchildren. They often stay at the original family cattle ranch on Deep Creek, near Manhattan, in the rugged Flint Hills of Kansas.