Funeral services for Ruby Lee Smitherman, 88, of Grenada will be at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, August 16, 2024, at Lake Washington Baptist Church. She died on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, at home. There will be a visitation from 1:00 p.m. until service time at the church. Burial will be in the County Line Cemetery, Glen Allan, MS.
Ruby was born on October 2, 1935, to Woody and Minnie Mae Dewberry Gardner.
She was preceded in death by her parents, first husband, James M. Holley, second husband, Robert Smitherman, four brothers, Milton, Jesse, James, and W. C. Gardner, grandson, Jay Holley and daughter-in-law, Cynthia Holley. She is survived by two daughters, Lisa Smitherman (Timmie) of Grenada, MS, and Sharon Bell (Bobby) of Olive Branch, MS; two sons, Danny Holley (Debrah) of Rolling Fork, MS and James Holley, Jr. of Glen Allan, MS; step-sons, Cedric Smitherman of Aberdeen, MS and Prentiss Smitherman (Angie) of Arkansas; two brothers, Eugene Gardner and Clifton Gardner; three sisters, Martha Williams, Joyce Evans, and Jackie Bond; 14 grandchildren, Miranda Davis, Lance Holley, Erica Gilchrest, Ryan Holley, Dawn Kiker, Jennifer Wilson, Robert Bell II, Alyssa Smitherman, Jason Smitherman, Shae Bishop, Corissa Coleman, Ashlee Carnell, Richard Smitherman and Kristen McCarty; and many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.