Mother Ruby Cox

1925 - 2022

Mother Ruby Cox

April 9, 1925 - September 2, 2022

MARION, Va.

Mother Ruby C. Cox, age 97, passed away on September 2, 2022, at her home in Marion, Va.

Ruby was born in South Carolina, and loved her Greenwood family. She graduated from Brewer High School and remained in South Carolina until she met her love of her life at the age of 25. She and Leonard moved to Arlington Virginia where she worked in Central Supply at Fairfax Hospital. In 1968, the family moved to Marion. While in Virginia, she and her husband started and pastored several churches. Ruby worked at Buster Brown until she retired, then she got bored and began working at the Main Street Gifts and Eatery. She was a mother to all, raising three children, three step-children, many foster children, grandchildren and a host of spiritual sons and daughter. Ruby was the co-founder and assistant pastor of Antioch Greater Ministries in Marion and the National Mother for the Greater Love Apostolic Assemblies Fellowship. Mother Ruby loved her Lord and her family and they loved her.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Johnny and Liela Christopher; husband, Dr. Leonard R. Cox; brothers, Henry Christopher, Johnny Christopher, and Irvin Christopher; sister, Maggie Brown; daughter, Esther Juan Christopher; and grandson, Michael Eugene Chambers.

Ruby is survived by her daughters, Debra LaJean Cox Wolfe Velazquez of Marion, Va., and Maria Robinette Cox Forbes and husband, Kevin, Rockville, Md.; sons, Leonard Christopher Cox of Marion, Va., Robert Floyd Cox and wife, Joanne, of DeLand, Fla., and Charles William Cox and wife, Linda "Tweet", of Ontario, Canada; sister, Thelma Pearl Kimble of Queens, N.Y.; 22 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, six great great-grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.

The family will receive friends, Sunday, September 11, 2022, at the Greater Love Antioch Church from 1 until 2 p.m. A funeral service will begin at 2 p.m. with Bishop Nolan Wolfe officiating. Burial will be held Monday, September 12, 2022, 11 a.m. at Rose Lawn Cemetery in Marion.

To share memories of Ruby C. Cox please visit www.seaverbrown.com. Care for Ruby's family has been entrusted to Seaver-Brown Funeral Service & Crematory, 237 East Main Street, Marion, VA 24354.