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Ruth McCRAY Obituary
Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, at Oakey's North Chapel, with the Rev. Larry Sprouse officiating. The interment will follow in Cedar Lawn Memorial Park. The family will be receiving friends from 5 to 8 p.m. on Monday at Oakey's North Chapel.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Bereavement Fund at Melrose Baptist Church.
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Anne Keller
July 23, 2012
Ruth was my mother, Bernice Overstreet's first cousin, and I knew Ruth literally all my life. She was the epitome of a lovely and loving Virginia lady. During the last 5 years, we spoke by phone every other day. She gave me wisdom, advice and love. She loved nature, watched the clouds in the sky,loved birds and trees and took great joy from flowers and squirrels. She read her Bible daily and visited with friends. Most of all,we prayed together by phone for her family. Without her help and prayer, I would not now be married to my life's love, my husband. She loved her home, her mother after whom my mother, Bernice Elvin was named, and her children and she longed to stay in her house forever. Devoted to her church and its members, she led trips to historic places for her church members and they had a ball. She was a gracious, lovely Christian in every sense and her gracious balance and yielding to the will of others will always be an inspiration to us all. May God Bless Her. In her last months, she often spoke of "seeing" her mother, and it was in this, that I knew the Lord was permitting her Mother in Heaven to come and escort Ruth back home to Heaven. She was beginning to make her transition upward to the Higher octaves of Light. Many "see" what we don't understand on the earth and we are far too quick to judge them. But with God, all things are possible. Anne Mason Keller, neice of Bernice Elvin Overstreet Meiselman
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