Ruby Catherine Woolums

Ruby Catherine Wilson Woolums departed this life on spiritual wings May 28, 2021. She was member of Melbourne Heights Baptist Church. Ruby enjoyed a full life as a loving mother, devoted wife, enthusiastic homemaker, avid antique collector, history buff and a gardener with an almost encyclopediac knowledge of plants. After retiring from Kroger, she and her husband had a wonderful time traveling to just about every historic site in the eastern U.S. Ruby was born August 24, 1930 to Charles E. Wilson and Nellie Monroe Wilson of Frankfort, Ky. She married Charles B. Woolums, Jr. on June 27,1947 . They subsequently lived in So. California during the Korean War and then Lexington, Ky., Atlanta,Ga. and finally, Louisville, Ky., all the while, staying strongly connected to family in Frankfort, Ky. Ruby was preceded in death by her parents and brother, John E. Wilson.

Ruby is survived by her husband Charles Woolums; son,Glen D. Woolums; sister-in-law, Catherine Devers Wilson; nephews, Tom, Larry, Mike and Don Wilson, Howard and Ronnie Douglas; and loving nieces, Jaqueline Wilson McKinney , Linda Woolums Demaree and Patricia Douglas. Ruby received wonderful final care from Sheila Hampton, Anita Brookings, Paula Bertram, neighbor Joyce Wooldrige, and the Hildegard House of Louisville.

Services are private. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens in Frankfort, Kentucky.

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