Ruby Hines

GREENSBORO - On Tuesday, May 15, 2007, the Lord called Ms. Ruby Hines to her heavenly home and said, "Well done my good and faithful servant."

A funeral service, celebrating her life, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, May 18, at First Baptist Church, Hillsborough, with the Rev. Randy Carter officiating. Interment will follow in Gretna Burial Park, Gretna, Va.

Ruby was born November 8, 1909, in Neuse, a rural community near Wake Forest, She was the second of four children born to Robert Henry and Annie Watkins Richards. She lost both her parents by the age of 14. She graduated from Hillsboro High School and went to Kings Business College in Raleigh, where she graduated with a bookkeeping and accounting degree. She worked for various companies including Burlington Industries in Burlington, Central Motor Co., McCloud Oil Co. and Foust Oil Co. all of Mebane. She retired from Foust Oil Co. in her 70's.

She was known to many for her sense of humor and her caring spirit. She loved people and enjoyed traveling and reading, She loved her Lord, her family and her church, First Baptist of Hillsborough, where she served on many past committees. She was an active deacon for four years, on the Pastor Search Committee, president of Baptist Women, member of the Seniors Choir and taught the Ladies Fidelis Class for 35 years. She always said this was God's way of teaching her his word. She came to live in Hillsborough in 1945 and in 2004, she moved to Guilford Healthcare Center in Greensboro, to be near her niece and caretaker, Dorothy Lowdermilk.

Ruby was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Josephine Hester Ferrell; two brothers, James Robert and Rufus Henry Richards; and her three husbands, Buck Danieley, Paul Shelton and Charlie Hines.

She is survived by two nieces, Dorothy Lowdermilk and husband, Porter of McLeansville, and Janice Ward of Burlington; four nephews, Dr. R. Henry Richards and wife, Jean of Los Gatos, Calif., Donald Hester and wife, Betty of Durham, Richard Hester and wife, Joy of Timberlake, and Gary Hester of Raleigh. She is also survived by a host of great nieces and nephews, cousins and her stepson, P. A. Shelton and wife, Elizabeth, of Staunton, Va.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Thursday at Walker Funeral Home, Hillsborough.

Memorials may be made to First Baptist Church, 201 W. King St., Hillsborough, NC 27278; or to Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro, 2500 Summit Avenue, Greensboro, NC 27405.

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