Ruby Ensley Sipe, 90, of Cleveland, Tennessee, passed away Thursday January 12, 2017 in a Chattanooga Health Care facility.
She was the daughter of the late E.L. and Georgia Ensley; and was also preceded in death by her husband Winford Sipe; her siblings Arietta Sipe, Ruth Goins, Marie Ensley, Marylene Ensley, Albert Ensley, Edgar Ensley, Arvin Ensley and two infant brothers; and one great-grandchild.
Mrs. Sipe was a member of the Kinser Road Church of God. She worked for ten years in the sporting department at Wal-mart until her retirement. She loved listening to music, reading and writing poetry but most of all she loved to study the Bible.
She is survived by her children Stella Myers and her husband Perry, Dianna Maddux and her husband Pat, Loretta Cloar and her husband James, Warren Sipe and his wife Faye all of Cleveland and Wayne Sipe and his wife Helen of Newnan GA; her grandchildren Penny Callihan, Lori Hammonds, Lebron, Phillip and Tracy Maddux, Stephanie Daniels, Carmen McCauley, Stephen Johnson, Jason Sipe, Eric Sipe and Emily Litton; 18 grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; her sisters Elvie Crumbley and Susie McCormack both of Cleveland; and her sister-in-law, Melba Hickman.
A Remembrance of Life Service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, January 14 at Jim Rush Funeral and Cremation Services Wildwood Ave. Chapel with Pastor Gary Sears officiating. The entombment will follow in the Hilcrest Cemetery.
The family will receive friends Saturday, January 13 from 5-8 p.m. at the Jim Rush Funeral home, who has charge of the arrangements.