Ruby Dowdy, daughter of the late John Henry Moore and Mary Gaines Moore, was born on August 12, 1916 at Pyletown and departed this life in the Golden Living Center at Malden on December 26, 2011 at the age of 95.

Mrs. Dowdy was a member of the Pleasant Grove Community Church at Pyletown, a home-maker and resident of rural Dexter,

She was united in marriage to Asa Dowdy on May 18, 1933 at Bloomfield.  Mr. Dowdy preceded her in death on December 31, 1996.

She is survived by two sons, Asa Dowdy Jr. of Fairbanks, Alaska and John Dowdy and wife Phyllis of Dexter: by one daughter, Judi Hausner and husband Ray of Webb, Mississippi: by one brother, Robert Moore of Dawson Springs, Kentucky: by two sisters, Aileen York of Dexter and Adell Eagle of Conway, Arkansas: by eleven grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by two sons, Gary Joe Dowdy and David Dowdy: by one granddaughter, Heather Dowdy: by four brothers, Raymond Moore, Roy Moore, Floyd Moore and Edwin Wooley: by three sisters, Mildred Taylor, Shirley Stegall and Ruth Young.

Friends may call at the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., Wednesday, December 28, 2011.  Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m., Thursday, December 29, 2011 in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Rev. Tom Potter officiating. 

Interment will follow in the Armstead Dowdy Cemetery.