Ruby Warr Smith, 83, of the Sardis Community, passed away  in Center on Wednesday, May 31, 2017 after a lengthy illness. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. Saturday, June 3, at Mangum Funeral Home Chapel; funeral services will begin at 12 p.m. Burial will follow in Old Salem Cemetery in Shelby County, her family’s burial ground. Her cousin Bobby Warr will officiate and her grandson Rodger Glen McLane will read the obituary.

 

Ruby Essie Warr was born in rural Shelby County on April 29, 1934, the fifth of twelve children born to Ernest Green Warr and Lid Luman. Her siblings were Noah Velt, Florine ‘Crickett’, Homer, E.C., Bobby, L.C, Freddie, Billy, Shirley, Betty, and Mary Warr. Ruby spent much of her youth in West Texas, where her family moved to work during the Great Depression. With her own family, Ruby moved her children back to Shelby County where she made her lifelong home. A well-known citizen of Shelby County, Ruby owned her own restaurant in Tenaha in the late ‘50s and worked for years as a waitress in local diners. Ruby married Ray Smith and lived on their farm in Sardis before her health declined and she became a resident of Holiday Nursing Home. Ruby was raised in the Baptist Faith, but at the time of her death she was a member of the Sardis Pentecostal Church. Ruby’s family will remember her as a loving and elegant lady.  Ruby is preceded in death by her parents, brothers, and sisters, Crickett Vandergriff and Shirley Nethery.

 

Survivors include her husband, Ray Smith, of the Sardis Community; her son and his family, Rodger Dale McLane (Brenda), of Deadwood; her grandchildren, Brandi Kelley  (Shane), of Carthage, Lacie Fensom, of Deadwood, and Rodger Glen McLane, of Jackson, Miss.; her great-grandchildren Alyssa, Brenton, and Courtlyn Fensom, all of Deadwood. Also surviving Ruby is her daughter and her family, Pat Miller, of Reno, Nev., her grandchildren, Roger Miller, Jamal Miller, and Lawanna Miller, all of Reno, Nev., her great-grandchildren, Stacia Miller, Staceyana Miller, Rajania Miller, Roger Miller Jr., Janea Miller, Jamal Miller, John Raymond Miller, and Dijonte Huey, and one great-great-grandchild, Yanni Green, all of Reno, Nev. Other survivors include her sisters, Mary Scates and her husband Bubba, of Center, and Betty Prior and her husband Travis, of Longview. Ruby is also survived by many nieces, nephews, and countless cousins throughout Shelby County, whom she loved dearly. 

 

Services are in the direction of Mangum Funeral Home