Ruby Louise Wilkerson's Obituary
Ruby Louise Ivey Wilkerson age 85 passed away Sunday, February 1, 2026 the Cumberland Health and Rehab in Bridgeport. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at Rudder Funeral Home in Stevenson from 6-9:00PM. Funeral Services will be on Wednesday, February 4, 2026 beginning at 1:00PM in the Rudder Funeral Home Chapel with Pete Hess, Shannon Brewster, and Jeff Arnold officiating. Burial will follow the service in the Longacre Cemetery.
Survivors include her children Thelda Wilkerson, Martha (Ray) Venable, Linda (Billy Joe) Edwards, and Joe Wilkerson; Siblings, Kenneth Ivey and Ruth Rorex; 9 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, and 3 great great grandchildren.
Preceded in death by her husband, Joe Mack Wilkerson, Sr., parents, Jonah and Lilly Ivey, siblings, Mary Grider, Mattie, Annabel, Martha, Ernest, James, John, Virgil, and Bobby Ivey; grandson, Andrew Phillps.
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