Ruby Henson, 97, of Fitzgerald, Georgia, died Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at The Harris House in Fitzgerald.
Funeral services will be held 11 A.M. Friday, January 15, 2010, at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Dewain Joiner officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7-9 Thursday evening at the funeral home in Fitzgerald.
Mrs. Henson was born February 14, 1912 in Gastonia, North Carolina to the late Melvin A. and Sarah Boyles Grigg. She moved to Fitzgerald in 1992 from Gastonia, NC and was a former resident of Atlanta. She was a retired sales lady having worked for Snyder’s, the French Dress Shop and Shoe Town in Atlanta. Mrs. Henson was a member of the Fitzgerald Church of God and the Young At Heart.
She is survived by her daughters: Jane (Jack) Collier of Fitzgerald and Grace Ann (Terry) Kasulka of Macon; 6 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren and 4 great-great grandchildren. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Henry L. Henson, a son, William Howard Ellington, 7 sisters and 1 brother.