Ruby J. Hedges-Stewart, 90
90, died Sept. 13 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville after a five-week illness.
A homemaker and a member of Heavenly Host Luthern Church in Cookeville, she was the daughter of the late Joseph P. and Daisy E. Bedelle Gagne; and was preceded in death by husbands, Lewis H. Hedges and William A. Stewart.
She is survived by son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Barbara Hedges of Spencer; grandchildren, James and Sue Hedges of Ashburn, Va., David and Deborah Hedges of Raleigh, N.C., Kimberly and Takis Patikas of Nashville, Kristin and Warren Walden of Highland Home, Ala.; seven great-grandchildren, and sister, Evelyn Torkildson of Minneapolis.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Love-Cantrell & Cope Funeral Home Spencer Chapel with Roger C. Paavola officiating. Burial will follow at Cummingsville Cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. today and 8 a.m. until time of service Thursday at the Spencer Chapel. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Heavenly Host Lutheran Church building fund, 777 South Willow Avenue, Cookeville, Tenn., 38501.
Love-Cantrell Funeral Home Spencer Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Sept. 15, 2004