Ruby Y. Lassiter

Hertford resident

Ruby Cleo Yates Lassiter, 90, of the 700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, Hertford, N.C., died Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008, at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, N.C. Mrs. Lassiter was born in Sumter, S.C., the daughter of the late John H. and Mattie Eleanor Frost Yates. A retired supervisor from Don Juan Manufacturing, she was a member of Bethlehem Church of Christ. In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husband, Raymond Aydlett Lassiter Sr.; her sisters, Juanita James, Barbara Mary Duckta, Frances Nixon and Virginia Daley, and her brothers, Walter, Franklin, John, Edward and Julius Alfred Yates. Surviving are her sons, Ray Lassiter and wife, Pam, of Hertford, and Allen Lassiter and wife, Frances, of Edenton, N.C.; her sister, Leslie Young of Watertown, N.Y.; five grandchildren, Randy Lassiter of Jacksonville, Fla., Eddie Lassiter and wife, Robin, of Columbus, Ohio, John Lassiter of Corapeake, N.C., Lisa Dayton and husband, Charlie, of East New Market, Md., and Donnie Jones and wife, Corey, of Belvidere, N.C.; and five great-grandchildren, Isabelle and Braden Lassiter, and Hunter, Kenlee and Courtney Jones. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Miller Funeral Home & Crematory, 735 Virginia Road, Edenton, by Pastor Phillip Alligood. Burial will follow in Cedarwood Cemetery, Hertford. Friends may join the family from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home and all other times at the home of her son, 200 Sunset Drive, Hertford.