04/30/2025
Chavers Funeral Home Shares
Obituary for Ruby L. Grandberry:
Ruby Lucille Grandberry was born on February 3, 1955 at 702 South Main St., Mount Pleasant TN to Ms.Annie Barton Grandberry (John Lee Newson). On April 21, 2025, Ruby made her transition from her earthly home to her eternal home.
Ruby’s elementary education begin at Clarke Training School followed by Haylong High School, and graduated from Mount Pleasant high school with the class of 1974.
Upon the completion of her education, she worked several different jobs before she found her true calling. After graduating from high school, she began working in Columbia, Tennessee as a nursing assistant, but she kept searching for a better job. Ruby then began working at Union Carbide in Columbia, where she remained until the plant closed. Ruby took a vacation and didn’t not work for a while. Later, she started doing private sitting work. Ruby enjoyed taking care of patients and being by their side. Ruby got an opportunity to do a sitting job with Mrs. Minnie. This was a perfect job for her because they both loved each other and their families became one big family. This friendship remained close until Miss Minnie passed. Ruby happily continued to serve the elderly, doing sitting jobs until her health failed. The McClure and Douglas families still considered Ruby as a part of their families.
Ruby grew up in Mount Pleasant TN. She spent most of her life on Scotts Mill Road. The late, Mrs. Margaret Grandberry (aka Granny), raised Ruby, her brother, and many of her cousins. There was always room at Granny‘s house, and every child was treated the same.
Ruby gave her life to Christ at a very young age and was baptized at Jones Chapel, African Methodist Episcopal Church. She loved going to Church and Sunday School because in Granny‘s house you didn’t have a choice. She was a very devoted choir member as well as serving on the Missionary Society, as president, until her health failed. Ruby enjoyed serving God and most of all, dressing up for God, with her make up on, and let’s not forget her name brand purse. Ruby will be truly missed from her Church.
She is proceeded in death by her mother-Ms. Annie Barton Dawson; her father-John Lee Newson, her grandparents, uncles and aunts
She leaves to cherish her memory here own earth, her devoted and loving and Brother: Larry Donald Grandberry (Jacqueline Webster); a devoted and loving aunt: Ms. Margaret Frierson; devoted cousins: Harold and Bonnie Hodge of Louisville Ky. All of the cousins that she grew up with: Charles, Michael, Tim, Edward, Kevin, Margie, George, and many more. Ruby had several friends and close friends, to name a few: Otis, Nay Lisa, Dan, and Georgia, whom she spoke with daily. A special thanks to her caregivers: Linda and Tionna and Alex.
Visitation will be at Chavers Funeral Home on Thursday, May 1, from 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM. Visitation with family begins at 4:00 PM. Funeral services will be held at Jones Chapel AME Church on Friday, May 2, with Visitation beginning at 11:00 AM and Funeral Services begins at 12:00 PM. Intermet will be at Hunters Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant. Chavers Funeral Home is in charge of assisting the family with final arrangements. Please lift this family up in prayer 💜
