Ruby Gentry

March 1, 1928 - July 11, 2020

Graveside services for Ruby Gentry, 92, of Rusk, will be 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Maydelle, Texas under the direction of Wallace-Thompson Funeral Home with Bro. Jack White officiating. Mrs. Gentry passed away July 11, 2020. She was born March 1, 1928 in Rusk, Texas to the late James Austin and Estella Vaughn. She attended Central and Alto schools. For 50 years, she worked in downtown Rusk, serving at Stovall Cleaners, Mathews-Miller, Baskins, Richey’s Ritz Shop and Anita’s Apparel and Accessories. She married J.C. Gentry on October 9, 1948. She was a member of Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church. She loved to work puzzles, hand quilting and crochet. She enjoyed crocheting afghans for gifts for friends and family. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband of fifty-two years, and her ten brothers and sisters and their spouses. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law Kevin and Sheila Gentry of Rusk, grandchildren, Jason, Laurie, and Brandon Gentry, numerous nieces and nephews, dear friend Ernestine Watson and several close friends as well as her church family. Visitation will be Tuesday, July 14, 2020 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. to allow for fewer people to be in the funeral home at one time. In lieu of flowers, please donate in her memory to Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, P.O. Box 69, Maydelle, Texas 75772. The family requests no potted plants please.