Ruby Lee Starr (Moore), 69
She was born May 20, 1935, in McMinnville to Charles Colville and Maude Ella Moore. Ms. Starr graduated from Central High School in 1953 and attended Samford University (formerly Howard College) in Birmingham, Ala., where she was an Alpha Gamma of Phi Mu. She graduated from Samford with a degree in journalism/English. She graduated with a master’s degree in professional writing from Towson University in Maryland. In 1958, she married Charles Robert Starr and moved to Maryland.
She was the coordinator of publicity for the Harford County Public Library System, personnel manager at Survice Engineering and an employment specialist for the Maryland Department of Education.
She was a member of University Baptist Church. During the late 1960s and early ’70s she was an active member of the League of Women Voters.
She is survived by her husband, Charles; her two daughters Jocelyn Starr Parks of Perugia, Italy and Melissa Starr Markham of Lewes, Del.; grandson, Jonathan Parks of Perugia, Italy; mother Maud Ella Moore; brother Charles Thomas Moore of Trenton; two nieces, Katherine Ann Betts of Milan, Tenn., and Mary Margaret Moore of Cookville; and a grand niece, Lauren Betts.
Services at Mount View Cemetery are Saturday at 11 a.m. The family requests friends and family meet at the cemetery as there will be no local visitation.
In lieu of flowers, please send donations in her memory to the music program at University Baptist Church, 3501 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Md., 21218, attn: Ron Gretz.
High Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements.
Southern Standard
(McMinnville, Tenn.) Sept. 17, 2004