Statler Family Obituaries
Darby, Ruby Lee (nee Fox)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Ruby Lee Darby, 86, of Marble Hill died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
She was born Aug. 19, 1919, in Marble Hill, daughter of William T. and Mary Dell Crites Fox. She and Lon Otto Darby were married April 14, 1935, in Jackson. He died in 1940.
Darby was a sewing machine operator several years at Advance Shoe Factory. She was a charter member of Hahn Chapel General Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Gary Dale Darby of Hillsboro, Mo., Bobby Dean Darby of Marble Hill; nine grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; several great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, one son Manford “Bub” Darby, one brother Lester Ray Fox, two sisters Connie Snider, and Freda Weibley and three grandchildren.
Friends may call at Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill from 4 to 8 p.m. today.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Gerald Huff officiating. Burial will be in Crader Family Cemetery near Marble Hill.
Printed in the Wednesday, February 22, 2006 edition of the Southeast Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO.
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