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Memorial service will be 2 p.m.. Thursday, June 30 at Trinity United Methodist Church with the Rev. Scott Weeks and Anny Kapundu officiating.
Visitation with the family will begin 1 hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the family for later designation. Online condolences may be directed to www.apfelfuneralhome.com.
Ruby was born on May 26, 1927, in Nance County to Errett Franklin "Sam" and Mary Ellen (Cox) Garton. She attended public school in Fullerton and Westminister, Colo., graduating from Westminster High School in 1945. She moved back to Fullerton in 1945.
On Oct. 6, 1947, Ruby married Gerald Laverne "Joe" Graves in Fullerton. The couple moved to South Dakota in 1947, and then to Holdrege in 1951. In 1959 they moved to Grand Island.
Ruby was a member of Friday Bible Study, Trinity United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, Telephone Pioneers, and American Legion Auxiliary.
Survivors include son, Thomas (Jeanne) Graves of Grand Island; daughter, Ava Weeks of Kampala, Uganda; grandchildren, Brian (Hope) Graves, Danny (Jodi) Graves, Scott (Amy) Weeks, Jill (Rob) Pahl, Jeffrey (Kristi) Weeks, Shane (Laura) Weeks, Zachary (Cassy) Weeks, Heidi Jo Weeks; great-grandchildren, Carsten, Jackson, Parker, and Madilyn Graves, Hannah, Jacob, Caleb, Madison, AvaClaire, Norah Kate, Lillian, and Cambria Weeks, and Jude Wright, Joshua and Olivia Pahl. .
She was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Graves; sisters, Lorella (Richard) Irwin, Elaine (Delbert) Graves, Janice (Charles) Jarecke, and Karen Golden; brothers-in-law, Clyde Graves, Jr. and Charles Graves.
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Gordon Hrnicek
June 30, 2022
Tom and Jeanne, my sympathies tp you and your family. Ruby was a class lady. Gordon Hrnicek
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