Ruby Lee Brock Armstrong, 82, of Cleveland, Tennessee, passed away Monday morning, April 24, 2017 in a Chattanooga health care facility.
Mamaw Ruby, as she was affectionately known, was the daughter of the late Maggie Lou Mull Brock Saffles and Marshall Daniel Brock; and was also preceded in death by her husband, Calvin Armstrong; and her two brothers, Frank and Ray Brock.
Mamaw Ruby was retired from Cookes Manufacturing after many years of service. She enjoyed watching game shows, sitting on her front porch and camping. She loved her church and she was a member of the Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church.
Survivors include her seven children, Ann Simons and her husband Clyde, Frieda Eaton and her husband Otis, Nancy Justice and her husband Jim, Linda Nicholson and her husband Marshall, Bobby Armstrong and his wife Kim, David Armstrong and his wife Cindy and Dennis Armstrong; 17 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; nine great-great-grandchildren; her sister Shirley Jones; her brother, Tommy Sloan and his wife Louise; and several nieces and nephews.
The Remembrance of Life Service will be conducted on Thursday, April 27, at 1 p.m. from the Philadelphia Baptist Church with Reverend Johnny Underwood and Reverend Jason Barnes officiating. Interment will follow in the Fort Hill Veteran Section with John Anderson, Mark Finnell, Marcus Abernethy, Shane Armstrong, Blake Finnell and Cody Armstrong serving as casket bearers.
The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 at the Jim Rush Funeral and Cremation Services Wildwood Chapel who has charge of the arrangements.